{"id":78763,"date":"2017-11-30T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=78763 "},"modified":"2017-11-30T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:08:00","slug":"78763-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=78763","title":{"rendered":"China Clamps Down on \\’Rumors\\’ of Kindergarten Abuse, Says No Sexual Abuse Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A guard stands outside the RYB kindergarten in Beijing, where police have launched an investigation into child abuse, Nov. 24, 2017.<\/span><\/p>

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The ruling Chinese Communist Party has moved to damp down a public outcry surrounding the alleged abuse of children and toddlers at a Beijing kindergarten, warning the country’s tightly controlled media not to criticize a recent statement by police denying that any sexual abuse took place.<\/span><\/p>

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“Resolutely prevent any malicious hyping of the Chaoyang police’s social media account announcement on the RYB New World kindergarten,” a leaked directive from the party’s powerful propaganda department ordered editors.<\/span><\/p>

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“Please immediately delete or shut down any social media content or accounts that seek to exaggerate the situation,” a copy of the directive posted online by the U.S.-based China Digital Times news website said.<\/span><\/p>

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New York-listed RYB Education has removed the principal of its New World kindergarten in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, and also fired a 22-year-old teacher surnamed Liu, who police said had been found to have “pricked” children in her care with needles.<\/span><\/p>

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The Chaoyang district police department said Liu is now under criminal detention, after admitting pricking children with needles who “didn’t want to take a nap,” as a form of “discipline.”<\/span><\/p>

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While the statement admitted that some of the surveillance footage from cameras inside the kindergarten was missing, it blamed a member of staff for switching off the power for the gaps in coverage, and denied allegations by parents of sexual abuse at the kindergarten.<\/span><\/p>

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“So far in the investigation, we have managed to recover 113 hours of surveillance footage, and at no point was anyone seen harming or abusing a child,” the statement said.<\/span><\/p>

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It said that of the 78 staff members employed at the facility, only eight were male, and that police had “found no incidents in which they were alone with the children.”<\/span><\/p>

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State-run Xinhua news agency had earlier reported that police were investigating allegations that children were “reportedly sexually molested, pierced by needles and given unidentified pills.”<\/span><\/p>

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But police handed an administrative jail sentence to a parent surnamed Liu for “rumor-mongering” about the scandal, while a second parent surnamed Li had been released on caution after receiving “criticism and education” from police, and making a public apology for the allegations on social media, it said.<\/span><\/p>

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Repeated calls to the Chaoyang district government education bureau rang unanswered during office hours on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>

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Cover-up suspected<\/span><\/p>

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Many suspect the government, in admitting the physical abuse with needles, is seeking to cover up a far greater scandal.<\/span><\/p>

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“Of course nobody believes the version of events offered by RYB kindergarten,” a parent surnamed Li told RFA. “After doing these evil things, day in, day out, they are now trying to make themselves out to be good people.”<\/span><\/p>

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“This is utterly shameful, and I think everyone understands very well what is going on here.”<\/span><\/p>

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An anonymous teacher at a different Beijing kindergarten agreed.<\/span><\/p>

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“For such things to be going on at kindergartens really shows you just how dark our society has gotten,” the teacher said. “We can no longer see the light.”<\/span><\/p>

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A kindergarten principal in the central province of Hubei said it was highly suspicious that a section of surveillance footage had “gone missing.”<\/span><\/p>

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“If they had a proper surveillance system in the first place, then it couldn’t have gone missing,” the principal said. “I think the school is keeping something back.”<\/span><\/p>

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And an academic who asked to be identified only by his surname Li said the police statements left far too many questions unanswered.<\/span><\/p>

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“It’s very unsurprising for this to be the outcome in China,” Li said. “Firstly, ordinary people have no way to take on officials, and secondly, there’s a prohibition on ‘smearing’ the central government since the 19th party congress [last month].”<\/span><\/p>

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“They basically want to cover up anything negative, because they see it as smearing them.”<\/span><\/p>

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Keyword searches of top Chinese social media sites showed that many tweets referencing the RYB scandal had been deleted by Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>

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