Needle abuse at kindergarten claim rejected
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A MOTHER’S claims that kindergarten teachers stuck needles into her daughter because the family wouldn’t give them cash gifts were yesterday dismissed by education officials.
But a friend of the family accused the Xuhui District Education Bureau of failing to listen to both sides before reaching its conclusions.
The mother, identified by her Weibo microblog ID Felicia_jiang, said her daughter came home from the Xuhui Art Kindergarten with red dots on her head and bottom.
She claimed the 4-year-old child been pricked by teachers with needle-like objects.
According to the mother’s Weibo account, the child told her grandmother that she had been pricked with a sharp object by a teacher because she and another child were fighting.
The mother said several teachers had accepted cash gifts and took revenge on the child when the family refused to give any more “red envelopes.”
The Xuhui District Education Bureau yesterday rejected these allegations, saying doctors said the marks were not caused by needles and that no evidence of teachers accepting cash had been uncovered.
The bureau said the kindergarten took the girl to a children’s hospital on September 25, following a complaint from her grandmother. A second visit was made on September 29, the bureau said on its Weibo account.
Denied allegations
“The diagnosis showed the red dots on the student were not caused by needles. Doctors said those on her bottom were blood bruises and those on the head were eczema,” it added.
It added that three teachers accused of taking cash gifts by the child’s grandmother had denied the allegation.
“The teachers said they hadn’t received ‘red envelopes’ of cash, and gave statements.”
It challenged the family to provide evidence to back the accusations.
The mother, who is said to work in Singapore, was unavailable for comment yesterday, but was said to be furious, according to her friend Wang Lei.
“The education bureau has never talked to us,” Wang told Shanghai Daily. “How can they give a conclusion without hearing from both sides?”
Wang said the girl entered the kindergarten in September and that the family gave 500 yuan (US$82) each to four teachers.
One teacher returned the cash on October 2, said Wang.
She also said the case was not investigated thoroughly.
For while the bureau said the girl’s grandmother had checked all surveillance footage on campus on September 25 and found no evidence of abuse, there was no surveillance camera in the classroom, Wang said.
“Our little girl was taken into a small room where she was beaten and pricked with needles by a teacher,” Wang claimed.
Wang also claimed to have recordings of doctors saying the marks were external injuries.
She said the school asked what the family wanted to solve the dispute, but that the mother demanded one teacher be fired.
“We have a responsibility to speak out and stop the same abuse happening to other children,” Wang said.
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