Parents angrily accused an American foreign teacher of forcibly hugging and molesting two girls. The monitor slapped her in the face and she was still innocent.

"Grizzly", an American foreign teacher at a well-known English cram school in Kaohsiung, was accused by their parents of molesting two first-year elementary school girls by taking advantage of the opportunity to change homework and read text. The judge found that the whole case only contained a single accusation from the girl and lacked supporting evidence. No abnormalities were found in the monitor footage, and the teacher was found not guilty.

The judgment pointed out that the American foreign teacher JOHN (teaching name Grizzly) has been teaching in an American English cram school in Kaohsiung since August 2023. The parents of two primary school girls accused the foreign teacher that in early 2024, the foreign teacher repeatedly used the whole class to do homework or individually read texts after class.

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After the parents called the police to file a complaint, the cram school immediately fired the teacher. After the investigation, the prosecutor filed an indictment on the charge of forced indecency with a girl under the age of 14. During the trial in the Kaohsiung District Court, the teacher denied committing any crime and emphasized that he had never left the student alone on his lap to caress him.

The judge inspected the monitor footage of the cram school classroom and found that at the time when the girl was accused of being molested, the contact time with the external teacher was very short, and the process was natural. She even smoothly recited "Grizzly is a good teacher" while reading English aloud, and talked and laughed with the external teacher. No abuse was found.

In addition, when the patrol teacher and classmates appeared in court, they both stated that they had not witnessed any inappropriate behavior such as touching the private parts of the students. Although the mother of another victim girl testified that the child was emotionally abnormal afterward, the judge determined that it was a hearsay and could not be used as direct reinforcement evidence.

The judge believed that due to their young age, the child's statement ability and memory may be limited. However, criminal judgments strictly follow the "presumption of innocence" and the "principle of reinforced evidence." The victim's accusation cannot be used as the only basis for a guilty verdict. Except for the single statement of the two girls, the whole case lacks other objective reinforcing evidence. The verdict of the foreign teacher is not guilty and can be appealed.