This pre-school in Santiago, Chile is the centre of a growing child sex abuse scandal.

It's one of 61 schools in and around the capital under investigation by prosecutors.

They allege pre-schoolers here were abused.

Concerned parents flocked to the Apoquindo school, and police also made an appearance.

Cases of child sex abuse have skyrocketed this year and a national database of abusers will be published next month.

Andrew Raven, Reuters