Following a week of turmoil after concerned parents accused the Chaoyang RYB Education kindergarten of drugging and molesting their young children, Beijing police have now come forward with a statement regarding the case. The statement was spread online by various (state) media, such as Xinhua News, and soon was shared in many WeChat groups.
The statement says:
“After an investigation by the public security bureau, it was found that [suspect] Liu X. (female, 22 years old, Hebei province), a teacher of the RYB Education kindergarten in Chaoyang District, did “discipline” some children with sewing needles for not sleeping on time. The suspect has currently been detained for abuse.
The kindergarten’s total staff consists of 78 people; among them are 8 men, who did not have access to children alone. Experts and third judicial parties have found no truth in the claim [found no “irregularities”] regarding parents’ explanations about the physical examinations of young pupils. If the children would have taken any medicine during class hours, there are strict rules about it, and parents must provide the name of the drug, the medication time, and the dosage instructions, which would then be the responsibility of the kindergarten health care provider.
It was found that there is damage to the hard disk that stores the monitoring video of the class involved [in this case]. Experts of the professional technical team have diagnosed that this relates to repeated power outages. Upon investigation, the kindergarten’s storehouse manager Zhao X. (female, 45 years old, Henan Province, who was in the monitoring room) often forced off a power cut of the equipment after school due to the noise of the monitoring equipment. In the course of the investigation, 113 hours of [monitoring] video have been retrieved, without finding any violations against the children.
Considering the accusations against the kindergarten of a “collective abuse of children,” it was found that Liu X. (female, 31 years old, Beijing native) and Li X. (female, 29 years old, Hebei Province) have disseminated false rumors. Mrs. Liu has been detained fabricating facts and disturbing public order; Mrs. Li has received educational criticism by the public security bureau and has since publicly apologized on her Weibo account on 25 November.
Gou X. (male, 28, from Sichuan province), has responded to TV reports of November 23 about [his] child at the kindergarten being given pills, and has now admitted that the child was not given pills at the daycare center. The video content in question was taken at home with a certain medicine that was present in the household; the child’s answers were induced and the video was then sent out to parent’s WeChat groups. The reporter at the TV station in question, Liu X. (male, 36 years old, Beijing native) directly compiled the video without any verification.
In response to the remarks made by the daughter of Zhao X. (female, 31 years old, Heilongjiang Province) regarding the ‘uncle’ and ‘grandpa’ doing naked health check ups, Zhao X. now acknowledges that it was fabricated, and is willing to clarify the facts to the public and publicly apologize.
The public security bureau would like to express that it is carrying out further work on this case and that it will firmly crack down any crimes against minors in accordance with the law. At the same time, it also calls on the public to rationally deal with online information, and that those who deliberately create and spread rumors will be dealt with according to law.”
Also read:
Collective Shock after Exposure of RYB Education Children’s Abuse
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By Manya Koetse
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