Child Abuse in Childcare Facility... Three Teachers Prosecuted Without Detention

Three life guidance teachers have been brought to trial on charges of abusing children in a childcare facility multiple times over a period of five years.

According to the legal community on the 27th, the Women and Children Crime Investigation Division of the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Jeong Hyeon-seung) has indicted three individuals, including A, a former life guidance teacher at the childcare facility, without detention on charges of violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Crimes of Child Abuse (aggravated punishment for child abuse by workers at child welfare facilities).

They are accused of physically and emotionally abusing the victim multiple times from 2011 to 2016, when the victim was 11 years old.

The victim filed a complaint against them with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in September 2021. The police investigating the case referred them to the prosecution. Subsequently, the prosecution requested a supplementary investigation once. The police then transferred the case back to the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office in May.

The case has been reported multiple times by various media outlets. The victim claimed to have suffered continuous abuse under the pretext of punishment.

According to the victim, A and others subjected children at the childcare facility to sadistic corporal punishment, such as placing workbooks on their arms and making them endure bent knees for over five hours, and forcibly feeding vomit back to them if they vomited while eating.

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