Claims a Beijing nursery gave injections and drugs to toddlers have prompted a media storm and protests by parents. Police are investigating.
China’s official Xinhua news agency joined a social media storm Friday, saying police were checking allegations that pre-school children had been « reportedly sexually molested, pierced by needles and given unidentified pills. »
Reacting to the latest in a series of scandals over alleged supervisory lapses in China’s booming private childcare sector, the education ministry urged officials nationwide to « take warning from these types of incidents. »
RYB Education apologized for the « serious anxiety this matter has brought to parents and society, » saying the kindergarten’s principal had asserted that the center was the victim of a frame-up by an « individual. »
Three teachers had been suspended, said RYB, part of a fast-growing sector fulfilling a growing middle class’ parental wish for high-end educational services.
It provides 1,300 daycare centers — some under franchise — and nearly 500 kindergartens in 300 Chinese cities, according to its website.
