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I just watched a video about children being molested at Kumon tutoring centers. It is scary. Now no place is safe for children.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=834****&pid=834****

I feel so sad for the kids. What the kids had been put through was inexcusable, which I realize happens a lot. Such incidents are awfully traumatic for children and they will have to live with a lifetime of guilt and shame.

My thoughts, well-wishes etc., go out to all children molested by their tutors :-(

Children should be encouraged to talk to their parents and tell them of such crimes as soon as they happen.

Location: Norwalk, California

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It seems the Kumon management only wants to make money and don't care if children are molestedor raped at Kumon.

Guest

I was informed by a Kumon staffer recently that Kumon North America management does nothing when staff report child abuse incidents at Kumon centers. According to her, the Senior Management at the headquarters have questionable characters themselves.

I've decided to take my kids out of Kumon at the end of this month for good. Don't want them to be molested by Kumon staff.

Guest

I'd stay away from Kumon

Guest

I agree. Kumon has a sex problem. They should change their name to Kumon sex company.

Guest

Why allow such tutoring places to operate. Governments should shut down dubious companies such as Kumon from operating in the education sector.

Guest

Thanks for the post and warning. We were not aware that Kumon was a place where children are molested by tutors.

Guest

The safest way to protect your children is not to send them to Kumon centers. Kumon centers have a history of *** cases where children have been molested.

Please keep our children safe from child predators who claim to be instructors under the guise of tutoring and Kumon centers seem to be the breeding ground for child predators preying on little children. God Bless.

Guest

Kumon is sick and run by perverts.

Guest

Kumon perverts.

Guest

Wow! I haven't been shocked that much in a long time about news.

Child molestation at Kumon is really disheartening and saddening.

Kumon teachers you are sick ***-ks you touch little girls you need to rot in jail. wasn't a woman enough for you you had to go after little girls?

Guest

Children abuse and children molestation investigation inside Kumon needed by police here Jakarta central. Kumon very bad place for children.

Guest

In Indonesia many Kumon peoples are abusing children. Many reports of bad stuff information is coming to parents. Government of Indonesia must investigate Kumon staff peoples in Kumon center in Jakarta and many places.

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Government of Indonesia please investigate all child abuse and sex molestation of children in Kumon Math centers in Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Bekasi, Medan and Tangerang. Kumon center is poison for Indonesia. All bad things happening in Kumon centers in many many citys here.

Guest

I think Kumon Math & Reading tutoring center should rename itself as Kumon Molestation & Rape torturing centers. All of them should be sent to JAIL for torturing children with worksheets, molestation and rape.

Guest

I know KUMON is good for me but right now work sux

Guest

if there is no electric chair then chemical castration is a must if this social malady is to be checked. otherwise it will go on. because Kumon peoples know the loopholes and how to escape it.

Guest

Do all Kumon teachers get regular medical tests to check for contagious diseases and AIDS tests? How can I know if the Kumon teacher is not going to give my child some diseases?

Guest

Did she really get venereal diseases from Mr. Kumon?

Guest

The problem with Kumon Math & Reading is that sex scandals have been perpetrated by the Kumon family themselves. So who can blame many of the franchisees for sex crimes?

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/09/17/news/story2.html

When my sister first opened a Kumon center in Atlanta the son of the founder of the Kumon Math & Reading company was involved in a major sex scandal with a franchisee Debra Tajiri, who owned two Kumon Math & Reading centers in Manoa and Kailua.

She later claimed that Hiroshi Kumon had ruined her life after they had an affair and began asking him for money over a 21-month period beginning in March 2002. An employee of Debra Tajiri, the Kumon franchisee, later allegedly extorted $150,000 from a son of the founder of the Kumon learning method in exchange for 2,000 โ€œcompromisingโ€ photos. Debra Tajiri and one Sean Yonehiro, whom she hired to work in her centers as an assistant, were later arrested and faced a charge of sending international extortion communications which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Both were arrested after Yonehiro met with an FBI agent posing as Kumonโ€™s attorney at Ala Moana Park and took from him a bag containing what he believed to be $150,000.

At the time of the affair, Hiroshi Kumon was Director of Kumon Institute of Education in Japan, the parent company of Kumon North America, one of five regional headquarters worldwide responsible for operations in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

An individual who went by the name โ€œMax Leeโ€ and who had been e-mailing Hiroshi Kumon while he was in Japan threatening to release compromising photos of Hiroshi Kumon if he didnโ€™t pay for them. The complaint does not describe the photos but does say that Lee threatened to release the photos if Kumon also did not send more *** pictures of himself. More than five years after their affair, Debra Tajiri (the Kumon franchisee) allegedly began e-mailing Hiroshi Kumon asking for $500,000 to remodel her house, the complaint said. In those e-mails, she allegedly told Kumon that โ€œyou have taken a lifestyle from me,โ€ and that she was considering filing a lawsuit.

She also accused him of infecting her with a venereal disease and said that he should pay for her medical treatment. Kumon allegedly paid her more than $350,000. Later Debra Tajiri, the Kumon franchisee, allegedly continued asking Kumon for money, saying electricity at her home was shut off and that she could not pay contractors to finish work on her home. Debra Tajiri, the Kumon franchisee, e-mailed Hiroshi Kumon again, saying she needed $550,000 to secure a building contract.

When he didnโ€™t respond, she e-mailed him saying her life was โ€œ***โ€ and was over, and asking him why he had not sent money.

Investigators learned that the e-mails sent by โ€œMax Leeโ€ came from an account belonging to Debra Tajiri and from her Nipo Street home.

One of three vehicles spotted at Kumon franchisee Debra Tajiriโ€™s residence was a white Ford pickup truck that was later seen at the Hawaii State Library โ€” the first meeting Lee allegedly requested for Kumonโ€™s representative to bring the money. A man was seen walking around the library on that day before leaving in the white truck registered to Yonehiro, who lists a Nipo Street address as his residence.

Guest

I did a search on Kumon reviews or Kumon complaints on the internet and what I read shocked me. This tutoring company is dangerous and a threat to children.

These Asian owned *** centers should be shut down immediately by the department of child services.

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