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A recent child abuse case was exposed through surveillance footage at Jihui Kindergarten in Huoqiu county, Anhui Province. The video shows a female teacher beating, kicking, slapping and pulling the hair of two young girls during a dancing activity. The local Education Bureau issued a statement saying that the teacher was dismissed last Saturday, and a judicial inquiry is underway.
China’s 2006 Law on the Protection of Minors explicitly outlines that corporal punishment in kindergartens and schools is illegal, saying “teaching and administrative staff in schools, kindergartens and nurseries and faculty members shall respect the personal dignity of the minors, and may not subject them to corporal punishment or corporal punishment in disguised form, or commit any other act that humiliates the personal dignity of the minors.”