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27 Oct 2024, 3:34 pm

Florida teacher uses legs to put 3-year-old in headlock during storytime, deputies say

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A Florida teacher was arrested Saturday after she allegedly used her legs to put a 3-year-old boy with autism in a headlock during class.

Vilma Otero, 59, is facing child abuse charges after a paraeducator assigned to her classroom witnessed the incident unfold and filed a report with the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), an arrest affidavit said.

The paraeducator in Otero’s classroom at Forest Lake Elementary told Volusia County deputies she was setting up an activity during the children’s storytime when she heard a child “start to scream and cry” from the other side of the room.

When the paraeducator turned around, she saw Otero sitting in a chair with the 3-year-old between her legs in a “chokehold.” According to the report, the boy’s face was turning red from crying and screaming as he tried to free himself.


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27 Oct 2024, 3:44 pm

She's lucky she didn't get bit. :lol:


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27 Oct 2024, 3:47 pm

This is as much outrageous as it is absurd.

What kind of teacher would do this sort of thing?!


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27 Oct 2024, 4:07 pm

Gotta be careful doing that to kids.
Those little heads have a propensity for popping clean off.