Kindergarten teacher sacked for posting pictures of young boy forced to smell his feet

The teacher forced the kid to smell his feet after the child had called them smelly. Police placed him in an emergency seven-day detention and the government said he needs to be fired. — SCMP

A kindergarten teacher in southeastern China was sacked and detained for a week after making one of his students smell his foot and then publicly posting pictures of the incident on WeChat, local authorities said on Tuesday.

The teacher, identified by his surname Liu, said he was “cultivating [masochism] from childhood” and described the punishment as a form of training. Under this logic, the teacher would be “training” the boy to understand masochism, which means “deriving pleasure from one’s own humiliation”.