For how long? – Kindergarten boss: many missteps and top salary

A suspected child molester, broken souls, distraught parents and an orderly cover-up. Daniela Cochlar, head of MA 10 (kindergartens) for ten years, is starring in the drama that will continue to preoccupy the courts.

The Member of Parliament with a monthly salary between 7500 and 9500 euros gross (salary scheme A9) is still in office. For how long? The FPÖ demands their transfer, the ÖVP the provisional suspension. City councilor for education Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS) wants to await the report of the appointed committee.

Trained kindergarten teacher Cochlar, who ironically once led the Gender-Sensitive Early Childhood Education project, made a few mistakes:

• Suspected case hushed up: Although Cochlar was aware of the suspected abuse from the start, she did not inform the parents of the educator groups for 13 months. Today she would have acted differently, Cochlar told the “crown”.

• The top official also left her politically superior city council in the dark for more than a year. Because Deputy Mayor Christoph Wiederkehr is not a red man, but a pink man?

• After the scandal broke, an information evening was hastily organized. Cochlar left “almost all essential questions” unanswered, participants complain.

• The teacher has been transferred, not suspended. From an employment law perspective, that was perhaps the easiest way. Does this mean that the alleged perpetrator still has access to sensitive MA-10 data?

• Youth care (MA 11) and not MA 10 turned against the public prosecutor. In the usual way, according to the town hall.