Later that morning at about 10.45am, the offender abused the second victim by smacking the girl’s face, pushing the chair on which she sat and hitting her arm.
She did this because the girl had called out to a teacher in charge of another class even though the offender had told her not to do so.
Some minutes later, the offender also shoved the girl on the arm and poked her cheek while scolding her.
When the girl stayed rooted to the spot, the offender slapped her cheek forcefully, causing her to cry.
Frustrated with the cries, the woman pulled the girl off the chair and pushed her, causing her to fall.
She dragged the girl up and pushed her to the ground, doing this a few times. When the girl sobbed, she ignored the child.
Later, she repeatedly hit the girl’s cheeks and head with foam blocks, shoved the girl’s face with tissue papers that she had used to wipe her tears, smacked her face and roughly pinched her cheeks.
SECOND DAY
On the morning of Jun 27, 2022, the woman abused the two children again.
At about 10.20am, the boy lost his balance and slid off a chair. The offender hoisted him back onto the chair while he cried.
She pushed the chair towards the table, causing his midriff to hit it, and then pulled the table to wedge him firmly between the table and the chair.
Later, she also used a pen to hit his hand multiple times, slapped him and pinched his cheeks forcefully.
At about 10.45am, the offender picked up the girl roughly and put her behind a table surrounded by chairs. The girl sat on the ground with her back to the wall.
At this point the woman lowered the blinds, which had the effect of obscuring the public’s view of the classroom, the prosecution said.
The woman then used her leg to push the table and chairs towards the girl, which left the toddler completely trapped by the furniture.
The offender also placed a plastic divider on top of the girl’s head to prevent her from looking out and calling to another teacher at the far end of the room.
Later, she pulled the girl under the table to ensure she was trapped under it. When she noticed the girl crawling out, she ran back and pushed her back under it.
The girl tried her best to resist by pushing the table away from her, but the offender shoved the table back towards the wall, at one point causing the girl to suffer a blow.
With the girl trapped between the table and the wall, the woman continued trying to use the plastic divider to block her view of the classroom.
At one point, when the girl did not stop crying, the woman hit her face multiple times with the plastic divider. She also hit the girl’s head with it.
DISCOVERY AND IMPACT ON CHILDREN
After the girl went home on Jun 27, 2022, her mother discovered some bruises on her face.
The mother used the school’s online messaging system to ask her daughter’s teachers what had happened and uploaded two photographs of the girl’s face.
The next day, the offender replied that the girl “did not (have) any incident in school yesterday and she was fine just for as usual she cried a little asking for the both of you”.
Despite the teacher’s denial, the preschool’s principal started an investigation when she became aware of the mother’s query.
The matter was escalated to the preschool’s headquarters, which made a police report against the offender a month later.
