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Background: Selmer Elementary School successful Selmer, Tennessee (Google Maps). Inset: Meg Day (McNairy County Sheriff's Office).
A teacher successful Tennessee is accused of dragging a nonverbal pupil crossed a rug, causing "carpet burn" and a "blood reddish mark."
Meg Day, 49, has been charged with assault, according to McNairy County Sheriff's Office records reviewed by Law&Crime. She was booked into the region jail connected Thursday.
On March 19, a McNairy County Sheriff's Office lawman was dispatched to Selmer Elementary School successful Selmer, Tennessee, a tiny metropolis located immoderate 100 miles eastbound of Memphis. Two witnesses had reported that an worker had attacked a child, country NBC affiliate WMC reported.
The teacher — identified arsenic Day — allegedly grabbed a nonverbal 9-year-old lad by the little fractional of his assemblage and dragged him crossed a rug. Another worker is said to person seen the pupil reaching for his backmost and past identified a "blood reddish mark."
The pupil had been fixed "carpet burn," the schoolhouse caregiver determined, according to Memphis CBS affiliate WREG. The main and adjunct main of the schoolhouse were told.
Day was aboriginal arrested and jailed, though records amusement she was subsequently released.
Just days earlier, an worker astatine Selmer Middle School — which, similar Selmer Elementary, is wrong the McNairy County School District — allegedly deed a pupil connected the backmost of the head. Authorities accidental 65-year-old Sequoia Ann Hively was captured connected video slapping a 15-year-old student.
The pupil was reportedly checked by the caregiver and recovered to not person immoderate injuries. The superintendent told the teen's begetter that Hively — who was a luncheon idiosyncratic — would not beryllium backmost astatine the schoolhouse until the concern was resolved, per WREG.
She, too, was released from jail.
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