A teacher who committed a sexual offense when he was a high school student and is now suspected of working at an elementary school in Gyeonggi Province is no longer allowed to stand in the church.

According to the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education today (25th), the Provincial Office of Education has made a decision to dismiss Teacher A.

The dismissal will take effect on the 30th of this month, but Teacher A has not been on sick leave since she was removed from work shortly after the matter was reported in the media, so she will not face the students again.

It turns out that he had already applied for his dismissal in the middle of this month, when allegations against him surfaced through Internet cafes and the like.

The school sent a text message to parents yesterday informing them of Teacher A's dismissal.

The principal of the school said, "After questioning the alleged party, he replied that it was 'not true, it is untrue, and he has nothing to do with it,' but as soon as the allegations were raised, he was removed from the student's classes and educational activities, and with the cooperation of the education authorities, he was dismissed."

He continued, "This issue is important to student education and has social repercussions, so we were unable to disclose in real time what the school task force and education authorities have done," adding, "We are very sorry for this incident, and as teachers are a profession that requires a sense of ethics and morality, we hope that there will be a way to supplement them socially and institutionally in the future and make appointments after thorough verification."

Earlier, on the 20th of this month, an Internet café posted that the perpetrators of the group rape incident that occurred in Daejeon in the past have not been properly punished, and one of them is currently working as an elementary school teacher.

The incident mentioned in this article was 13 years ago, in 2010, when 16 high school students in the Daejeon area sexually assaulted a junior high school girl with intellectual disability level 3 who they met through an internet chat several times over a period of a month, and the perpetrators were sent to the juvenile division under the Juvenile Justice Act and placed on probation.

This protective disposition is not a criminal punishment, so it does not remain a criminal conviction, and it is not recorded in the criminal history data, so it does not prevent you from holding public office such as a teacher.

When a teacher or other public servant is newly appointed, the agency receives a consent form from the prospective appointment and then requests a background check from the police to find out whether there is a criminal record and decide whether or not to appoint a person.

Democratic Party Rep. Kang Yuk-gu, a member of the National Assembly's education committee, said, "The Ministry of Education should immediately take fundamental measures to address the loopholes in teacher appointment qualifications."