Sexual assault, imprisonment. The allegations against two teachers at a kindergarten in Vienna-Penzing are heavy. So difficult that now the MA-10 boss had to resign. However, only from their previously performed function.
“After growing disagreements over crisis management in recent weeks, I have asked the mayor to relieve Daniela Cochlar of her duties as head of MA 10,” Councilor Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS) said at a hastily convened media event on Tuesday. A wish that city administrator Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) will grant: “If the responsible city government finds it necessary, I will approach it,” said Ludwig.
After she and her associates were accused of covering up the abuse scandal uncovered by the “Krone” in a Penzinger kindergarten that remained secret for more than a year, the former kindergarten and after-school teacher must now take her hat off .
employment remains intact
But what does that mean in concrete terms? The decree that made Cochlar head of department and thus the top manager of the Viennese kindergartens in 2012 is being revoked, but the employment relationship remains. Just like the post level the Senate Councilor is assigned to. A team in MA 10 will temporarily run the business and the position will not be advertised again until a later date.
Already two educators in the office
Also still on the payroll: two educators under investigation by the prosecutor. One is accused in several cases of sexual abuse, the other of misconduct in education, which only became public on Tuesday. A contract termination is only planned in the event of a conviction.
In the second case, which has since been reported to the Public Prosecution Service by MA 11, according to the Public Prosecution Service, a deprivation of liberty is currently being investigated. Particularly bad: the teacher involved left the kindergarten in Penzing in September 2021. He took a leadership position at a kindergarten in Liesing. He was not transferred to office work until the end of May. It is the presumption of innocence.
Source: Krone
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