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.

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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.

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