Abuse of students concerns parents

Two incidents in Beijing and Shanghai involving teachers sexually assaulting students when giving private tutoring have attracted wide public attention and raised concerns among parents about children's safety.

A junior middle school teacher in Beijing was detained in Haidian district on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student, the Mirror, a newspaper in Beijing, reported on Friday.

The teacher, surnamed Zou, used to teach the student math at school and the student's father, surnamed Wang, hired Zou in September 2015 to privately tutor her after school.