Tampa Principal And Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Putting Student In Chokehold
When you send your child to school you expect them to remain safe but the opposite happened at this Tampa school. A middle school teacher and assistant principal in Hillsborough County were arrested after the teacher put a student in a chokehold and it was all caught on video. The assistant principal and teacher were arrested in connection to a child abuse investigation after a video showed the teacher put a child in a chokehold. They both thought the video was deleted but cops were able to recover it.
Why Did The Teacher Put The Student In A Chokehold?
The altercation initially took place on Jan. 18, when 39-year-old Bennie Leverett who was a teacher at Progress Village Middle School, put a student in a chokehold. It was so rough that he was restricting the student’s ability to breathe. Assistant Principal Tashiska Fabian, 41, was made aware of the incident but never reported it to the Child Abuse Hotline or Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. After Fabian learned that someone recorded the incident but was told that the student to delete the video. That’s when police were able to recover the deleted video.
Police then went to the middle school along with the Department of Children and Families on Feb. 16 and Leverett was later arrested on March 14 following their investigation. Wednesday, Fabian was arrested on a warrant because she failed to report the incident. According to WFLA, “Hillsborough County Public Schools stated: Immediately upon finding out about the allegation in February, the teacher was pulled from duty. The teacher was then arrested in March, and the school notified all families about the arrest. The teacher never returned to school, and he resigned from the district in March.”
Fabian is not a current employee and was never allowed to return to the school for failing to report the incident to police. She was officially let go from her position. This is still an ongoing situation.
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