The Taipei City Department of Education is publicly listing the names of preschool teachers who have been banned from working in the profession and the schools at which they had worked, as part of an effort to address a recent spate of child abuse cases.
The names of the debarred teachers and the schools are being published on a dedicated section of the department’s Web site with the aim of better protecting young children, the city government said on Thursday.
The list of names includes teachers who have been banned from working in the profession due to alleged abuse of children in Taipei, the department said.
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The schools at which they were working at the time of the allegations are also being listed on the Web site, it added.
As of Thursday, 22 teachers have been listed, including Mao Chun-shen (毛畯珅), who was indicted in August last year on charges of sexually abusing six children. The Taipei District Court on Friday sentenced him to 28 years in prison.
The first complaints against Mao, 30, were filed in June 2022, but he continued to teach at Taipei Piramide School, which was owned by his mother, until he was arrested in July last year.
Amid public criticisms of the city government’s handling of the matter, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) on July 17 issued an apology to the children at the school and their parents, and promised to improve the city’s policies and procedures.
On Thursday, the education department said the city government would also bolster its inspection mechanisms to better protect preschool children.
It urged parents to contact the department, through its reporting system, if they suspect that their preschool children have been abused.
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