2 Macao tutoring centers suspended over sexual abuse
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Macao's Education and Youth Affairs Bureau has ordered two local private tutoring centers to be temporarily shut down as it received reports of sexual abuse cases involving the two centers and young boys, the Macao Post Daily reported on Friday.
About a dozen schoolboys had allegedly been sexually abused by the owner of the two tutoring centers, which provide tutoring classes to students from local schools, according to the daily. The owner is a 27-year-old local resident surnamed Fok.
The two centers were both licensed by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau in 2006, and were allowed to provide tutoring classes to up to 68 students, according to the Bureau's website.
The abuse case was discovered by one of the Bureau's counselors when talking with the school boys on Tuesday, and the counselor encouraged the parents of these children to contact the police, the daily quoted an unnamed source as saying.
Macao's Judiciary Police said last night that they were still unable to track down the whereabouts of Fok after the case was exposed.
Some 30 students were still studying at the two centers Thursday when the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau shut them down. Temporary tutoring services have reportedly been arranged for the children affected, according to the daily.
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