A teacher was outed as a sex pest after a student filmed him taking upskirt footage of female pupils during class time.
Footage shows the moment the vile teacher places a mobile phone at the hem of a skirt and points it up between a teen's legs at a school in Ecuador.
Ecuador’s Ministry of Education has confirmed a teacher, who has not been named, has been suspended from a school in the city of Quevedo for sexual harassment.
The teacher was suspended after videos, assumed to have been filmed by the students, went viral online, local media La Republica reported.
In it, the teacher is seen preparing his mobile phone and dropping his arm down by the side of his chair as the student approaches.
He then edges the mobile closer to the girl’s legs and directs it upwards, as she turns the pages of the workbook for him to see.
The video has racked up more than ten thousand views on YouTube, outraging social media users.
Commenting on the video, one person criticised the Department of Education’s hiring process of teachers, calling for tougher measures to ensure candidates are vetted more thoroughly.
Another person, “disgusted” by the video, slammed the teacher’s actions, raising concerns over his mental health and the impact on pupils.
The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the incident and will provide counselling to affected students, it announced in a statement on November 14.
Prosecutors are reportedly analysing the case though no criminal complaints have been made against the teacher, according to CEN.
This is the latest offence in a string of teacher-pupil related sexual incidents in the country.
Between 2018 and 2019, the Ministry of Education of Los Rios suspended nine teachers for being involved in cases of abuse and sexual violence.
