Teacher Shows 6-Year-Olds 'What Does Human Flesh Taste Like' Documentary, Faces Child Abuse Charges

A Canadian teacher in South Korea faces child abuse charges for showing a documentary about the taste of human flesh to a group of school children.

The teacher, whose identity was not revealed, showed students, who were as young as six years old, a BBC documentary titled 'What does human flesh taste like?' local reports stated Monday.

Classroom CCTV footage showed children burying their heads in their arms from shock while watching the video. They were trying not to look at the images shown in the BBC Earth Lab Programme that was uploaded on YouTube in 2016.

In the video, the host, Greg Foot, allows a medical professional to take a sample of his thigh flesh for analysis and then continues to cook the sample. He then smells the sample and mentions that the aroma of the meat is a lot richer than pork or chicken. He also states that it smells like a beef and ale stew.

However, he does not consume the meat as cannibalism is considered illegal and instead requests a scientist to analyze the sample’s aroma and concludes that it is close to a mixture of beef and lamb before continuing to cooking and eating a burger made from a mixture of beef and lamb, stating that it’s the closest he’s going to get to tasting human flesh.

Following the incident, parents of the children filed police complaints. During interrogation, the teacher had told police that she had searched for the video after a child asked her what human flesh tastes like. Her lawyer insisted that her intentions were not to shock the children. Meanwhile, the children were receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress.

"We're helping the children receive treatment for post-traumatic stress. Although the video might be aimed at satisfying innocent curiosity, the children’s parents protested strongly. We’re going to press [child abuse] charges against her,” an investigator said.

Meanwhile, police officials mentioned that the teacher will be barred from leaving the country until the case is closed. The exact date of the incident was not known.