Educator in court for mistreating daycare children

A teacher has to answer before the Munich district court because of allegations of physical and mental abuse of daycare children. The woman, born in 1968, is said to have repeatedly beaten, thrown to the ground and humiliated children. She is also said to have withheld food from the hungry little ones and deliberately not changed the full diaper or wet pants. She is therefore accused of mistreating those under her protection in ten cases.

Accordingly, from April 2024 until the time of her release in July 2025, the educator was in charge of a group in which the majority were children between the ages of one and three. At irregular but increasing intervals she is said to have physically and verbally punished children against whom she had an aversion. The reasons for this were partly the children's origins or their lack of knowledge of German. The consequences were physical and/or mental pain for the children.

The educational concept of the facility explicitly stipulated that all children, regardless of their background, would be raised with respect, without their physical integrity being violated.

Accusations also against the head of the daycare center

In addition to the teacher, the head of the daycare center was the focus of the investigators. She is said to have known about the incidents for more than a year, but did nothing to protect the children - punishable as aiding and abetting by omission.

However, according to a court spokesman, the proceedings against the director, who was born in 1988, were temporarily discontinued with the consent of the defendants and the public prosecutor. According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, this is possible in less serious cases if requirements or instructions such as monetary payments to charitable institutions or charitable services are fulfilled.