Was EF's former foreign teacher arrested for sexually assaulting China 12-year-old female students?

Arrested. According to the bulletin issued by the U.S. Federal Department of Justice 10/0/6 October, 47-year-old Curtis Baldwin pleaded guilty to the Chief Judge of the U.S. Federal District Court on May 5, one of which involved sexual exploitation of minors and the other involved receiving and distributing child pornography.

Official website showed that Baldwin had been a foreign teacher in EF Education. 2065438+09165438120, left China and returned to Springfield. Subsequently, he contacted domestic 12-year-old former students through WeChat. Baldwin told the female student that the video in his hand showed that she had had sex and threatened to post the video online unless she sent him pictures and videos about her sexual behavior. The girl's father saw these WeChat messages and told EF Education, and then the FBI investigated the matter.

On March 10, 2020, federal agents executed a search warrant in Baldwin's residence, and seized many items, including his Apple MacBook Pro, which contained a lot of child pornography, including many videos of underage women having sex in China.

According to the federal law of the United States, Baldwin will face at least 15 years of imprisonment, and will not be released on bail for 15 years. The maximum sentence is 50 years in prison without bail. But what kind of punishment Baldwin will receive depends on the court, and the sentencing hearing will be held later.

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EF was exposed to the chaos of foreign teachers' incomplete qualifications and foreign teachers' involvement in drugs.

On the road of expanding China market, EF Education has exposed various negative problems in recent years. The exposure of former foreign teacher Baldwin's sexual assault on China students is not the first chaos among EF education teachers.

As early as 20 12, CCTV's "Economics and Law" column exposed the chaos of EF education teachers' incomplete qualification certificate, the source of foreign teachers, and students' non-refund, saying that Shanghai EF is not qualified to hire foreign teachers, and there is a problem of incomplete qualification of foreign teachers.

Subsequently, EF Education issued a statement saying that it had started an internal investigation and would deepen management to ensure the effective implementation of school operating standards. Bill Fisher, president of EF Education China, rushed to Beijing to apologize. "We have some omissions in the process of staff training and management."

At the Sino-British English Training Industry Cooperation Seminar held in Beijing in June, 20 19, Yang, Senior Vice President of EF Education Children's English, emphasized that EF Education has a professional teacher recruitment and training team and a strict recruitment and selection process.

"The team of teachers who choose the best among the best and are dedicated has always been the pride of EF and the core of our success." On July 8th, 20 19, EF Education official website published an article about holding the first teacher-student exchange meeting, with Don, Executive Vice President of English Training Center.

However, just two days after the publication of the above article, on July19,2065438, the official report of Quanshan Branch of Xuzhou Public Security Bureau revealed that a drug-related case had been cracked after investigation according to law. Up to now, * * * has arrested drug-related personnel 19, including foreigners 16 (7 foreign teachers and 9 students in an educational institution). According to the circular, 65,438+09 people tested positive for drug abuse urine. At present, foreigners 1 person have been detained according to law, and drug-related persons 18 people have been administratively detained.

At 3: 5pm1on the same day, EF Education English for Young Children publicly responded to the incident that foreign teachers in Xuzhou Center were arrested for taking drugs, indicating that they attached great importance to it and were cooperating with relevant departments to investigate. In this regard, EF Education Children's English issued a statement through the official Weibo, expressing deep regret over the drug-related incidents of some teachers in Xuzhou Center during off-hours and attaching great importance to them. We are cooperating with relevant departments to conduct an investigation, and we are also conducting an internal investigation.

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