Georgia special ed teacher, aide charged with child cruelty
May 21st, 2009
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cherokee [GA] Ledger-News, and Fox 5 Atlanta (with video):
Police have arrested a special education teacher and a teacher’s aide from Woodstock High School in suburban Atlanta for allegedly abusing students with disabilities. The women, charged with false imprisonment and child cruelty, are free on bond.
Police say Laurie Peavy, 44, and Nancy Cheek, 49, duct-taped a boy with autism to a chair as a disciplinary action, and confined a blind girl under a desk for “talking and being chatty.”
Police said it appears the educators restrained the teens on more than one occasion.
Both educators have been removed from their posts and reassigned to non-teaching positions pending an internal investigation.
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(Photos, l-r: Laurie Peavy and Nancy Cheek, from the Atlanta Journal Constitution)

