The court heard that Teo was hired as a cook, but also escorted the children to another teacher for showers. He helped care for them at naptime by laying out mattresses in the nap room and patting them to sleep.
He was not supposed to interact with the children directly outside of his scope of duties as a cook.
An employee not named in court papers discovered the offences inadvertently in November 2023 when reviewing closed-circuit television footage for an unrelated issue.
Teo was seen inserting his hand under the diaper of a two-year-old girl.
Members of the school’s management committee later confronted him and asked him to leave. He resigned on Nov 23, 2023, but the matter was reported to the police only in early December 2023, after the school’s CCTV system was reformatted, erasing prior footage.
