Police: Teacher lowered autistic boy head-first into trash

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia special education teacher is accused of cruelty to children after police say she held an autistic boy upside-down by his legs and lowered him head-first into a trash can.

An arrest warrant says Mary Katherine Pursley told the second-grader that if he had "trashy behavior" like the Sesame Street character Oscar the Grouch, he would go "to the trash can."

Cobb County School District police state in the warrant that another employee witnessed Pursley place the boy into the trash can at Mount Bethel Elementary School outside Atlanta on April 30.

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[Sherman A1]

1. Pardon me for a moment

[hobbit709]

2. That teacher should be lowered headfirst into the unemployment line

[bvf]

3. How in the holy fuck

do people like this manage to get anywhere near other people's children to begin with??

Incredibly sad.

[Demeter]

4. I have got to think that this school system needs a training program

and the entire PR department needs to be replaced by professionals. And the principal.

[RKP5637]

8. Quite true! SH** like this generally starts from the top down. It's also IMO quite

possible this is not the first incidence, that this teacher has a predisposition for this type of behavior.

[iandhr]

11. Good point

But I think you ment the HR department not PR?

[Demeter]

18. Okay, I'll settle for both!

It was early

[Suji to Seoul]

5. Imagine if a cop did this. People would line up around the block to defend the cop

Remember, cops handcuffed and tasered an 8 year old girl throwing a temper tantrum. And were cleared of everything.

[notadmblnd]

6. I'm waiting for the cop apologists to jump into the "cop bites testicles" thread

It'll be interesting to see how they defend that one.

[7962]

7. Huh? Where the heck is THAT one?? Holy crap

[Suji to Seoul]

13. here

http://crimefeed.com/2015/05/off-duty-cop-arrested-for-biting-a-mans-balls-during-cinco-de-mayo-brawl/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=InvestigationDiscovery

[7962]

19. Thanks! He looks about like what I would've expected. At least he was off duty!

I thought it was a cop on duty that did it.

[Diclotican]

9. Omaha Steve

Omaha Steve

If that teacher had been my (potentially) children's teachers - and the teacher had treated my kids, if they had autism, or anything like in that spectrum that way - I would possible have been doing some really nasty things to that teachers in return.... Possible end myself in a prison for a while - at least to cool down a little... Even though I suspect it would have been troublesome getting me calm enough to get in a prison to cool down... I would have been going berserk-gang in its original meaning of the words...

And Im not a person who like or condone violence at all - rather the opposite - but if anyone did a kid of my some harm - I would not be pleased....

Diclotican

[iandhr]

10. WTF is wrong with people

How awful

[tk2kewl]

12. I'm surprised the cops didn't cuff the kid

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

14. Special Ed teachers are supposed to be understanding of these kids.

She is not very special.

[Android3.14]

15. Bad move, Teach.

Just goes to show, a teacher that can pass a certification test may still be unqualified to teach.

Another truism in this situation is that we get what we pay for.

[Tom Ripley]

16. That teacher is a disgrace to the profession

[jwirr]

17. Very sad. I wonder how old she is? Not so many years ago schools and institutions used some

pretty terrible methods to control children and adults like this all around the country. One I remember was placing the child in a small box in a lock down type punishment. I had hoped that those days were over.