Students Who Spread Edited Photos and Used Finger Gestures... Teacher Reports "Child Abuse Occurred"

Teacher's face digitally merged onto exposed women's photos
Also revealed to have made obscene finger gestures during class

Students who merged their homeroom teacher's face onto photos of other women and shared them on social networking services (SNS) were caught, and when the teacher applied to the Teacher's Rights Protection Committee, the students instead reported the teacher to the police for 'child abuse.' On the 24th, Teacher A, who teaches at an elementary school in Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam, revealed that she found out late last year that some students in her class had merged her face onto a woman's photo.

In a broadcast interview, A said, "My students took pictures of me and posted them on Instagram and some other pages. The shock was too great," adding, "They merged my photo onto a picture of a woman in a bikini, and other students reported it to me. I felt a lot of sexual shame. So, I didn't have the confidence to face the students who made my photo like that." A applied to the school’s Teacher's Rights Protection Committee and withdrew the application after receiving an apology from the students.

Students who merged their homeroom teacher's face onto explicit photos of other women and shared them on social networking services (SNS) were caught. When the teacher applied to the Teacher's Rights Protection Committee, the students instead reported the teacher to the police, claiming it was 'child abuse.'
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However, she later found out that some students had been continuously making 'finger gestures' during her class time, and she applied to the committee again earlier this month. A said, "I wanted to let it go, but after learning about the additional facts, I felt completely ignored," adding, "I felt that my human dignity was violated."

But a few days after applying to the committee, A received a notice from the police that she had been reported for child abuse. Some parents reported to the police that "A did not properly turn on the air conditioner in summer, made the students do strenuous physical training, and treated them with an irritating tone, constituting 'emotional abuse.'" The Elementary School Teachers' Union views this child abuse report as a clear retaliatory complaint. The parents who reported A did not respond to media requests for their statements.

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