South Africans are outraged at a video that has gone viral showing a nursery school teacher abusing toddlers.
The video captured the said teacher hitting school children and forcing them to undertake a cleaning exercise.
The incident took place at a creche in Carletonville, Gauteng over a year ago.
The 40-year-old woman whose name hasn’t been made public yet is seen in one of the videos repeatedly hitting a male toddler on the head.
She then tossed the child around before stepping on his head.
In another video, the same teacher was captured telling a crying girl to clean up her vomit. She then hits her on the head.
The teacher was arrested on March 26, 2019 and charged with the assault of a minor, according to police officials.
She is currently facing prosecution for her alleged crime and will next appear at Oberholzer Magistrates Court on May 7.
News24 reported that the motive for the creche teacher’s action is still unknown.
According to Eye Witness News, the principal of the school where the incident took place claims the videos that went viral were captured a year ago.
.@The_DSD condemns the abuse of children and wish to ask members of the public to identify the Crèche and the care-giver who is seen forcing toddlers to clean their classroom while meeting out the harshest punishment to the child. pic.twitter.com/Af1Sz9c45z
— South African Government (@GovernmentZA) April 4, 2019
A relative of one of the children abused in the video also confirmed that the incident was recorded two years ago.
She wrote on Twitter on Thursday that “The child in the video is actually my niece, the video was taken 2 years ago and we only found out today”.
There are reports of parents fetching their kids from the nursery after the video went viral on Wednesday.
Reactions
On social media many South Africans were angry at the development.
Please prosecute the person taking the video as well.
— Jan Cronje (@jancronje) April 4, 2019
She has to be arrested, charged, sentvto jail and put on the child abuse offenders list.
— John Modimo Molefe (@johnmolfe) April 4, 2019
The parents should take their kids very far away from this institution- disgusting child care. License should be revoked and the highest penal punishment applied.
— Musevenzo (@l_mu7zo) April 4, 2019
Can we ask what you plan to do with the information. We have seen the justice system in our country and how it never prevails. We would prefer to have her given to the public for rehabilitation
— Ndivhuwo Nesengani (@NdiNesengani) April 4, 2019
We need to improve ourself professionalism black community for ourselves. violence won’t take us far !
You know those kids might grow to be abusive as well, because they think it’s the way to live #itstartswithme !!
— T DUB C (@khutso_nkoana1) April 4, 2019
Source: Africafeeds.com
