El Jadida’s police arrested a Pre-K teacher (early years) working at a private school in Morocco on Wednesday for recording a video of a boy in one of her classes and sharing it on social media.
The Moroccan city’s cybercrime unit referred the woman to the public prosecutor for further investigation and questioning, local media reported.
The child’s father, who initially filed the complaint, has dropped legal charges against the employee during an official police hearing, converging reports found.
The video of the boy went viral in some Moroccan circles, where the child asks the Pre-K employee, “Are you screaming at me?” visibly on the verge of tears. The full video lasted around three minutes while the nanny was teaching the boy how to write Arabic diacritics (tashkil).
After getting wind of the video, the child’s parents filed a complaint to El-Jadida’s public prosecutor against the private school where he is enrolled.
The father accused the school’s administration of being complicit in filming his son without his consent.