上海一美籍教師涉嫌性侵至少7名兒童被捕

An American teacher at an elite French school in Shanghai has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least seven children, school officials and parents told AFP on Thursday.
法新社週四報道，據學校管理人員和學生家長透露，上海的一家法國學校的美國籍教師因爲涉嫌性侵至少7名兒童而被捕。

The news comes after a former instructor at the school, also an American, was extradited to the US on similar charges, they said.
而在此之前，該學校的另一名美國籍前指導員就曾因類似指控而被引渡回美國。

The kindergarten teacher was seized by Chinese police last month after seven families filed formal accusations against him, alleging sexual abuse and rape of students of both sexes, several parents told AFP.
根據家長對法新社的透露，上個月中國警方根據七個家庭的正式控訴將這名幼兒園老師逮捕，他被指控性虐待和強姦兒童，受害兒童中有男孩也有女孩。

"As parents we are devastated," said the mother of one pupil, who requested anonymity to protect her child's privacy.
一位學生的媽媽表示：“作爲家長我們都崩潰了。” 該名家長爲了保護自己孩子的隱私要求匿名。

Management at the Lycee Francais de Shanghai told AFP: "Families have lodged complaints with the Chinese police against a teacher at the French school of Shanghai over assaults on their children.
上海法國學校的管理人員對法新社表示：“家長們對中國警方提出訴訟，控告法國學校的一名老師性侵他們的孩子。”

"The investigation is being carried out by the Chinese police and is ongoing. The teacher has been in administrative detention since his arrest," the school added.
學校還表示：“中國警方已對此事展開調查，目前調查還在進行中。該名教師自被捕後就一直被行政拘留中。”

The mother told AFP that her child started behaving oddly soon after they moved to the country. "My daughter was having nervous breakdowns, she was scratching herself on her face and thighs," she said.
這名母親對法新社表示，孩子自他們搬到中國不久後行爲就非常怪異。“我女兒開始神經失常，不停地抓撓臉部和大腿。”

"As we had just arrived in China I figured it was exhaustion from moving countries, I didn't worry about it," she said, adding that only later did she link the unusual behaviour to abuse.
她說因爲當時他們剛到中國，以爲是因爲在不同國家間奔波很累人，所以她沒有太擔心女兒的異常情況。後來她纔將孩子的這些異常舉動和虐待聯繫在了一起。

The fee-paying school declined to provide precise details of the accusations against the teacher, nor over what period they allegedly took place. A notice addressed to families referred to "sexual assaults".
這所收費學校拒絕提供關於該教師的相關指控的具體細節，也沒有透露這些指控具體的發生時間。校方只在發給家長的通知中提及“性侵”。

Another mother said she suspected her daughter had been abused over a period of months, and that cases of abuse of other children went back as far as five years. "We are living a nightmare," she said.
另一位母親稱，她懷疑女兒被性侵了好幾個月，涉事教師對學生的性侵行爲很可能持續了5年之久。“我們生活在噩夢中。”

The second teacher, a friend of the first, was "extradited by Chinese authorities to the United States in December 2012 following an investigation into sexual touching and violence against minors", the school said in an email.
而該學校在一份郵件中表示，新聞中提到的第二位老師是涉案教師的朋友，在“2012年12月因性接觸和暴力侵犯未成年人而被中國政府引渡回美國。”

From 2005 until last year he worked alternately at the French and German schools, which share a campus.
從2005年開始，這名教師就在這所法國學校和另一所德國學校輪流工作，兩校共用校園。

He left the French school in 2011 and its management said his alleged actions took place during individual classes at a private home, when he was no longer on its staff.
2011年該名教師離開了法國學校，管理層表示對這名教師的所謂指控行爲發生在私人家庭的小班制教學中，當時他已經不是法國學校的教職工人員。

One parent expressed frustration, saying: "The French school wants us to believe that there is absolutely no link between these two incidents, except that the two people, while they were working together, were friends."
一位家長表達了自己的憤怒情緒，他說道：“法國學校想讓我們相信這兩起事件並沒有直接聯繫，但這兩個人，他們一起工作還是朋友，怎麼可能沒有聯繫！”

The French school in Shanghai is a private institution contracted with the Agency for French Teaching Abroad, a government body. Its two campuses have 1,600 students, ranging in age from three to 18.
上海法國學校是私人機構，與政府機構法語國外教學代理處簽約。兩校共有1600名學生，年齡在3到18歲之間。

Shanghai police declined to comment on the cases. The US consulate in the city also declined to comment.
上海警方拒絕就此案發表意見，美國駐上海領事館也拒絕評論。