Wu Jiaying, a 31-year-old from China, is accused of carrying and forcefully placing the girl on the floor and onto a chair at the preschool, grabbing and lifting the girl by her left arm before pulling her across the classroom. — TODAY picSINGAPORE, JULY 2 — A trial got underway yesterday of a former Chinese teacher at a preschool who is contesting a charge of ill-treating a two-year-old girl.
DPP Choo said that the alleged incident happened on May 11, 2022 between 10.17am and 11.22am. The girl was enrolled in Nursery 1 and Wu was one of two teachers assigned to teach children in that grade. In another part of the CCTV footage shown in court, the child was seen being seated near Wu by the other teacher, who then walked away.
When both teachers told the principal that they were unaware of how the scratch occurred, the principal reviewed the CCTV footage the next day on May 12, 2022. When asked by DPP Choo to describe the CCTV footage of the incident, ASP Phua said that Wu had “roughly” put the child on the floor and chair, and had “shaken the victim violently”.