Spanking a Child with a Spoon and Grabbing the Collar... Gwangju Police Agency Launches Internal Investigation

Investigation Launched Following Child Abuse Report
Kindergarten Teacher Hits Child's Head with Spoon and Grabs Collar
Suspect to Be Booked if Evidence Emerges

The Women and Juvenile Crime Investigation Unit of the Gwangju Police Agency received a report of child abuse on the 23rd and has launched a preliminary investigation (investigation before indictment). The report stated that a kindergarten teacher in the area hit a child on the head with a spoon and even grabbed the child's collar to throw them down.

The reporter was a parent who claimed there were more victims. The police plan to verify the exact circumstances of the incident by reviewing CCTV footage inside the kindergarten. If evidence of wrongdoing is found, the teacher will be formally charged as a suspect.

Crimes involving abuse of young children continue unabated. In April, the Suwon District Court sentenced a 60-year-old daycare center director to 19 years in prison for causing the death of a 9-month-old infant by covering the child with a blanket and pressing down on them because the child would not sleep. In January, a 36-month-old girl attending a daycare center in Gwangju exhibited abnormal behavior such as kneeling and clasping her hands in the middle of the night, prompting her parents to report it. Local governments and child protection agencies then began investigating the child abuse allegations.

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