Former Beijing school teacher convicted of raping a minor

Ex-China expat Neil Robinson, who made headlines last spring, has been convicted to twelve years in a UK prison for sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13, making an indecent video of a child, and possessing child pornography. The 47-year-old Briton turned himself in to UK consular officials in Beijing last April after …Read More

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Another foreign teacher accused of sexual abuse

Yet another foreign teacher has been detained by authorities on suspicion of sexually assaulting his students. The 32-year-old American identified only by his surname McMahon had been teaching kindergarten for the past five years at Shanghai’s Lycée français de Shanghai. The kindergarten teacher was seized by police on May 13 after seven families filed formal …Read More

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Foreign teachers facing heightened scrutiny after recent sex offender cases

The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) has issued an “urgent notice” regarding the hiring practices of foreign teachers in China after two stories about sex offenders teaching in China broke last week. “Such cases are not common. The overwhelming majority of foreign teachers in China are outstanding,” Xia Bing, director of the Department …Read More

Wanted alleged UK child rapist found to be working in Beijing school [updated]

The story of Neil Robinson is spreading through the China blogsphere like wildfire after first appearing as a comment on the China subreddit by a user who stated they’ve known and worked with him for several years at Beijing World Youth Academy, an international school in Beijing. Robinson is wanted in the UK “in connection …Read More

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