Foreign Teacher Accused of Harassment
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Parents of seven-year-old girls are accusing a Candian English instructor of having sexually molested their children.
According to the Seongdong Police Station in eastern Seoul, two parents filed a complaint with the police.
The parents are claiming that the 41-year-old Canadian sexually asaulted three girls who attended English conversation classes organized by the Seongdong-gu Office.
They said the teacher often sat their children on his knee and groped them. The teacher has been banned from leaving the country.
However, the foreign teacher is denying the allegation, saying that he just propped them up on his knee and that was all, police said.