Angry teachers take discipline too far on China's Children's Day
In one of child abuse, a five-year-old boy was nearly smothered with a quilt, while in the other seven kindergarten children had their arms cut with scissors. The offender in both cases was their teacher.
Celebration of Children's Day on Saturday was marred by news of two cases of child abuse.
In one, a five-year-old boy was nearly smothered with a quilt, while in the other seven kindergarten children had their arms cut with scissors. The offender in both cases was their teacher.
A teacher at Xinyi kindergarten in Shanghai's Jiading district was put under detention for 10 days and fined 500 yuan (HK$627) for cutting the arms of the children on Thursday.
The teacher joined the private kindergarten two weeks ago for an internship. She cut seven children's arms with scissors because "they were not sitting straight", a police statement said.
One pupils required stitches.
The kindergarten was opened in 2009 by an Anhui native with about 700 pupils, mostly the children of migrant workers.