Three former lecturers in Texas had been accused of swapping out their lesson plan for a disabled scholar with an exercise that appeared extra like a merciless and weird punishment. Now, they’re in larger hassle than simply dropping their instructing gigs.
Arrest paperwork from the Tyler ISD Police Division title 35-year-old Krystina Rena Haas, 22-year-old Prisicilla Gutierrez and 57-year-old June Renee Tryon as suspects within the March 12 incident, per CBS 19 TV. Authorities say directors at Tyler Excessive College reported one in every of their disabled college students’ fingers had been swollen crimson after they acquired off the bus. The report says they discovered the scholar had their fingers certain by packing tape.
Police say upon reviewing video footage from that college day, they noticed the identical scholar stroll right into a life expertise room the place Haas, Gutierrez and Tryon had been current. The report says the scholar was instantly ordered to stroll circles across the room.
Police mentioned when the scholar slowed in tempo, the lecturers would organize them to stroll sooner. At one level, police declare Haas yelled and cursed on the scholar.
The lecturers had been then accused of binding the scholar’s fingers with packing tape as soon as once more and proceeded to mock the scholar for “strolling like a robotic,” the report says. Police declare the scholar stayed on his toes with the tightly wrapped tape for a complete of 4 hours, having been compelled to stroll for half the time and ordered to face within the nook for the opposite half.
Now, what would justify such alleged conduct towards a disabled scholar?
Police mentioned in an interview, Tryon accused the scholar of being “impolite” and “cursing and flipping off” lecturers. Haas mentioned the scholar was “imply for no cause,” additionally citing using vulgar language and pointed finger weapons, the report says.
In response to the cops’ query in regards to the strolling punishment, Haas is alleged to have mentioned, “Sir, 4 hours? Significantly? It’s not going to harm them to face for 4 hours or to stroll. They’re not valuable infants, they’re 14- or 15-year-old teenage children.”
Welp, as of March 28, Haas and her two coworkers are certain themselves, behind the bars of Smith County Jail dealing with a legal cost of harm to a disabled particular person. They’re every being held at a $150,000 bond however Haas had hers elevated to $300,000, the report says.