Hong Kong kindergarten teacher accused of slapping three-year-old with police relative has charges dropped
- Child’s mother accused teacher of creating role play where pupils pretended to be protesters and hit and shone laser pens at her daughter
- Case collapsed when prosecution revealed they had no other witnesses besides the three-year-old
A Hong Kong kindergarten teacher accused of slapping a three-year-old pupil with a relative in the police force has been cleared of all charges after prosecutors found they did not have enough evidence to back their case.
Acting principal magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei on Friday cleared Lin Ka-wing, 40, of one count of assault by those in charge of child or young person, after the prosecution revealed they had no other witnesses besides the three-year-old – identified only as X.
Kwun Tong Court heard Lin was accused of wilfully assaulting X in a kindergarten toilet in Tseung Kwan O one day in September this year, in a manner likely to cause her unnecessary suffering.
The case arose from a complaint by the child’s mother, which went viral online as she accused a schoolteacher of asking pupils to take part in role play where those pretending to be protesters would hit and shine laser pens at X, acting as a police officer.
The mother further accused the teacher of taking X to a toilet to slap her 20 times in the chest.
A report was made to police on October 2.