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[제보는 MBC] Covering their faces with blankets, pushing and kicking…”Abused 8 children at daycare”

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The tip is MBC, this time it is news of child abuse that occurred at a daycare center.

At a daycare center in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, it was revealed that several children were gang-treated by teachers.

So far, the police have confirmed that 8 victims have been abused 240 times.

First of all, reporter Goo Yeon-yeon will tell you.

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Six months ago, the parents who were sending their 5-year-old son to a daycare center in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, lost their hearts.

He found bloody fingernail marks on his son’s forehead.

I immediately went to the daycare center and asked to check the CCTV, but the teacher expressed displeasure.

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“Don’t come. Mother us, because that’s a little bit because we’re evaluating right now. A little bit over there now. Can you take a look at Mother?”

The director also vehemently denied that there was no abuse.

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“The director said, ‘There was no abuse. I slapped him on the ass because he didn’t sleep at all. If you say that it’s also abuse, I’m sorry’…”

However, the two days’ worth of cctV that I saw at the end of the fight was shocking.

The teacher puts a blanket over the lying child’s face, and when the stuffy child lowers the blanket, he comes back and covers the face.

Three hours of doing this.

They have also been caught violently raising a lying child, pushing his head, and kicking him with his feet.

The director apologized after the surprised parents questioned him.

However, when he reported the abuse to the police, he changed his attitude, saying that the child would be expelled.

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“The director said, ‘Oh, please don’t come in because this is not our daycare child.’”

In the end, only the victim children left the daycare.

However, half a year later, at the beginning of this month, seven other parents were also contacted by the police.

These children were also abused.

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“It seems that my child was the victim of child abuse… I only recognized the abuse after seeing the CCTV footage of my child being abused.”

As a result of police checking CCTV from October to December last year, it was found that eight people were abused.

There were 240 confirmed cases of abuse, of which 60% focused on two children with developmental delays.

Additional images such as the teacher dragging the child to a chair, making him sit roughly, crushing the head, and throwing the child on the floor were also revealed.

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“My child is a little small and light. But the teacher, holding both arms, sits down and puts the child together and shakes the child. Just like playing with a puppet…”

The daycare center, which had been operating for six months despite being investigated by the police, closed on the 10th.

The police are investigating the case of the perpetrator on charges of child abuse and the director on charges of neglect.

This is Gunayeon from MBC News.

Video coverage: Lee Kwan-ho / Video editing: Park Hye-rin

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