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A student exposed that teachers at an orphanage in Seoul repeatedly abused them.
Not only did they hit hundreds with bats, but they also locked them in the bathroom and made them eat the food they vomited again.
Reporter Ko Jae-min reports.
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Red, scratch-like wounds are visible around the eyes and around the nose.
Park Ji-hoon (pseudonym), a 22-year-old without parents, took out these photos saying that she was beaten by a nursery teacher 4-5 years ago when she was at the orphanage.
Jihoon, who grew up in a shelter in Busan, was moved to an orphanage in Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul when he became an elementary school student.
However, he revealed that he was abused for 6 years from 2011, when he was in the 5th grade of elementary school, to the first year of high school.
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“Just lock him in the bathroom or something like that all day, and then give him some food. In the bathroom, he tells him to eat and eat…”
It is said that they drove him into the corner of the shower and sprayed hot and cold water alternately on his face and body.
They made me eat 10 servings of ramen and rice, and after I couldn’t eat and vomited, they claimed that I even gave them vomit.
He also said that after taking off his underwear, he slapped hundreds of buttocks with a bat and smashed his head with a cell phone, leaving scars on his head.
It is said that the reason was “I did not listen”.
The daycare teacher partially admitted to the assault.
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“I regret how much I do it. I’m really sorry. It was hard for me.”
Still, he made excuses, saying, “I was trying to teach well.”
“If the children do something wrong and do not solve the problem, I thought it was neglect. I think I will hit even my own children.”
Jihoon, who left the orphanage two years ago and became independent, filed a complaint with the police in August of last year against three childcare teachers who raised him.
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“I talked to all the managers involved about what those people were doing, but there was no action at all.”
Five other alumni agreed to join the lawsuit, claiming they had been subjected to similar abuse.
This nursery school, which was operated by the Catholic Foundation at the time, has now changed its operating foundation.
The orphanage said it was conducting its own investigation and said that it would faithfully participate in the police investigation.
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“I’ve come all the way here because (the perpetrators) didn’t apologize… I wish I could apologize to the other victims and apologize to their friends as well.”
This is Go Jae-min from MBC News.
Video coverage: Byung-soon Yoon / Video editing: Daye Ryu
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