New progress has been made in the child abuse incident under the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children’s "Tong Le Ju". Following the arrests and charges of child abuse among the first 6 staff members, the news stated that the police arrested 8 more staff members today (7th). 14 people were arrested.
It is reported that the arrested person is a childcare worker in a nursery school. The police set up a task force earlier on the incident to examine about 40,000 hours of CCTV footage of the "Children’s Home" Mong Kok meeting site. The police found 6 more children today. Suspected of being abused, a total of 26 young children were victimized.
According to the news, personnel from the Criminal Division of the West Kowloon Region set up a special task force on the incident earlier. There are more than 20 members in the group. They spend more than 10 hours a day to search through about 40,000 hours of CCTV footage. It was found in November last year. Beginning in the middle of the month, some staff suspected of abusing the children in the institution. The horrific methods of child abuse included slapped the children vigorously, slapped them on the head roughly, threw the children on the ground from the knee height position, grabbed the children's body and threw them against the wall.
After several days of investigation, the police identified 8 more childcare workers suspected of abusing the children in the hospital. They were arrested and investigated from this morning to night. So far, the police have arrested 14 people in this case.
As for the victims, there were six more children, aged between 1.5 and 3. A total of 26 children were abused. The police have contacted all the children and arranged for them to be examined in the hospital.
The police investigation is still ongoing, and it is not ruled out that more people will be arrested.
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The incident occurred on the 17th of last month when a resident witnessed a child abuse in the school playground and notified the hospital management. After checking the closed-circuit television, the police found that the children had their hair pulled, slapped on the head, slapped on the face and head. , Even being thrown to the ground, his body was red, swollen and bruised.
After investigations by the Regional Crime Squad of West Kowloon, six women (aged between 23 and 44) were temporarily charged with the crime of "assaulting a child or juvenile (child abuse)".
After the incident, Su Shuxian, the director-general of the association, said that staff suspected of child abuse had been suspended.
The Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children announced on Tuesday (4th) that it has established an independent review committee to comprehensively review the "Tong Leju Incident" and the organization's management and operation, and will submit a review report on the incident before the end of the month.
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