Chinese police are ‘powerless’ to act against a teacher who was caught urinating in flasks (Picture: CEN)

A kindergarten teacher who urinated in the flasks of female colleagues has been let off after authorities said they were powerless to act against him.

Gao Chao, 54, was arrested after secret smartphone camera footage revealed he had peed into the tea of four women at Dongsheng Art Kindergarten, in Lianyungang, in China’s Jiangsu province.

But after tests revealed he did not have any infectious diseases, police said they couldn’t act against him because he hadn’t caused any ‘harm’.

The footage was caught by a hidden smartphone (Picture: CEN)

One of the victims Li Kao, 26, was angered police had dropped the investigation and described how she first noticed something wasn’t right with her tea.




‘There was a strange smell from my tea a few weeks ago when I returned to the class after taking the children out to play in the playground,’ she said.

‘The cups are not transparent, so it was hard to see if the liquid looked strange but there was certainly a strange smell – which also came from the Thermos flasks that the tea was stored in.’

The four female teachers, aged between 21 and 26, had at first refused to go back to the school if Gao was still working there but later agreed to return after receiving £200 and an apology.

He also promised not to do it again.

Gao had reportedly felt he was not receiving enough respect from his female colleagues.