{"id":26169,"date":"2021-11-27T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=26169"},"modified":"2021-11-27T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:14:11","slug":"education-minister-discharges-teacher-convicted-for-pedophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/education-minister-discharges-teacher-convicted-for-pedophilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Education minister discharges teacher convicted for pedophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Evis Kushi has discharged an elementary school teacher who was a convicted sex offender after he had been hired at an elementary school in the city of Berat.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Kushi wrote on Facebook that an investigation has also been launched about the people responsible for hiring the sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>Kushi did not mention the Regional Education Directorate, the institution that employs teachers, but said that it is \u201cunforgivable that these people enter school promises even for a single hour\u201d while warning further punitive measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly denounce the employment contract signed with the teacher in Berat, when he was convicted by a court in 2003 for pedophilia, although the court did not bar him from exercising the profession, the prosecution did\u201d, said the minister.<\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s reaction came shortly after pupils denounced the case. The math teacher, Engjell Bregu, was sentenced to 7 months behind bars for pedophilia and sexual molestation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/now\/2021\/11\/10\/we-can-avoid-history-from-getting-repeated-through-a-registry-for-sexual-offenders-says-mp\/\">We can avoid history repeating itself through a registry for sexual offenders, says MP<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/08\/24603\/\">Child abuse,100 sexual offenders roaming free after serving their time in jail<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/08\/school-principal-fired-after-accusations-of-sexual-harassment-in-pogradec\/\">School principal fired after accusations of sexual harassment in Pogradec<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Minister Evis Kushi has discharged an elementary school teacher who was a convicted sex offender after he had been hired at an elementary school in the city of Berat. Minister Kushi wrote on Facebook that an investigation has also been launched about the people responsible for hiring the sex offender. Kushi did not mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Education minister discharges teacher convicted for pedophilia - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/education-minister-discharges-teacher-convicted-for-pedophilia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Education minister discharges teacher convicted for pedophilia - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Education Minister Evis Kushi has discharged an elementary school teacher who was a convicted sex offender after he had been hired at an elementary school in the city of Berat. 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