Kindergarten Employee Found Guilty on Over 200 Counts of Child Sexual Abuse
A worker at a Taipei kindergarten has been sentenced to 28 years for sexually abusing and secretly filming six children under the age of 7.
Transcript
00:00Mao Zhunsheng, a former employee at a Taipei kindergarten, arrives at court.
00:05Not long after, he was found guilty of more than 200 counts of sexually assaulting and
00:10secretly filming children.
00:13All six victims were under seven years old.
00:15Due to concurrent sentencing, he will effectively serve 28 years in prison.
00:20Can you accept the results of today's investigation?
00:22I may have to report to them again.
00:25Many of the crimes took place at Mao's workplace, a Taipei preschool and kindergarten owned
00:30by his mother.
00:32On the administrative side, several officials in the city government have been reprimanded
00:36for not catching the case sooner or handling it poorly.
00:39And they have established a new unit to publicize any unqualified personnel in schools.
00:44If a child is sexually assaulted or misbehaved, our committee has decided that the child is
00:49not allowed to be employed for one to four years.
00:54Child safety groups say that better communication is needed to prevent abuse cases like this
00:58from falling through the cracks.
01:00The source of the crime is sometimes from the police, the government, and the education system.
01:05But we can see that the cross-sectional connections between the three sides are lacking.
01:08There is a situation of leakage in the entire network.
01:13As Taiwan works to better protect its children, officials are hoping that these new measures
01:18can at least bring such cases to light a little sooner.
01:21Joseph Wu and Chris Gorin for Taiwan Plus.
01:24For more UN videos visit www.un.org