Osceola County substitute teacher arrested, accused of throwing student into wall

St. Cloud constabulary person arrested a substitute teacher astatine Neptune Elementary School.

Police accidental Casmore Shaw, 71, allegedly grabbed a pupil by the garment collar and threw him into a schoolroom partition arsenic punishment. The alleged incidental happened connected April 30.

The constabulary section says the schoolhouse notified them and the Department of Children and Families aft it happened.

“Student information is, and volition ever be, 1 of our department’s astir important concerns,” said St. Cloud Police Chief Douglas Goerke. “We person worked diligently with schoolhouse medication and DCF to guarantee a thorough investigation, making definite our students person the unafraid and nurturing situation they deserve.”

Police accidental the Osceola County School District confirmed that Shaw was instantly removed from schoolroom duties arsenic a semipermanent substitute teacher and is nary longer employed by the district.

Shaw is among multiple substitute teachers who person been arrested successful cardinal Florida successful the past fewer weeks.

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