A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who survived last year’s mass shooting has died by apparent suicide, marking the second such report this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 19-year-old Sydney Aiello reportedly committed suicide last week. She had reportedly been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after escaping the deadly massacre at the Parkland, Florida, …
Two Head Start teachers in Illinois were placed on paid administrative leave following allegations that preschoolers were ordered to get naked and stand in a closet as punishment. According to KMOV, the alleged incidents occurred at Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center’s Head Start program, which is managed by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). University police alleged that four of …
A Florida father was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly going to his son’s school with a loaded gun and threatening to kill staff. According to ABC News, Christopher Freeman, 27, arrived at Bear Lakes Middle School in West Palm Beach in a wheelchair, and told faculty he would kill them if they didn’t let him speak with …
A Florida high school was reportedly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after a 17-year-old student fatally shot herself in the school auditorium. WESH reported that a Lake Mary High School student took her own life five minutes after asking to use the bathroom at 7:45 a.m. A teacher reportedly heard a single gunshot, prompting an …
A former school official in New Jersey is trying to piece his life together following an ignoble arrest that resulted in a guilty plea for defecating under the bleachers at a local school. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 42-year-old Thomas W. Tramaglini was the superintendent of Kenilworth Public Schools during a period in which multiple complaints …
The family of a Tennesee kindergartener is speaking out after they say a teacher slapped her in the face with a ruler for “tattle-tailing” on another student. Speaking with the Daily Beast, mother Ciara Morgan, 23, claimed the Cummings Elementary teacher only got a two-day suspension for a January 25 incident involving her 5-year-old daughter, Hailey …
An Illinois mother has filed a lawsuit months after an elementary school teacher allegedly had another woman repeatedly beat her 9-year-old son in a bathroom. According to WLS, the family of Jo’Maury Champ has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the Chicago Board of Education, George W. Tilton Elementary School teacher Kristen Haynes, …
An Indiana superintendent has resigned days after she was arrested for allegedly getting a high school student medical treatment using her son’s health insurance. According to WTHR, Casey Smitherman’s resignation was announced during Friday’s Elwood school board meeting. The assistant superintendent will take on Smitherman’s role in the interim. In a statement to the Indianapolis …
Though it was later deemed to be a poor attempt at a joke, Indiana authorities arrested a young teen who posted evidence of a smartphone search related to school violence. According to The Hill, the 13-year-old boy is accused of using the Siri virtual-assistant feature to declare that he intended to “shoot up a school.” …
Authorities in Florida say an elementary school security officer has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a young girl in a room on campus. According to the New York Post, 22-year-old Malcolm Curtis Tillman had been on the staff at Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Tampa since last summer and was still working …
A school superintendent in Indiana was criminally charged after she allegedly pretended a student was her own son in order to get medical treatment for the child. KFSM reports Casey Smitherman was accused of taking the student to a doctor on January 9 after he didn’t come to school due to a sore throat. Reportedly suspecting that the …
A Kansas teen is suing the high school she previously attended, alleging repeated discrimination which entailed her being told that she couldn’t perform with her dance team because her skin was “too dark.” Per The Kansas City Star, Camille Sturdivant alleged she was one of two African-American students on the 14-member Dazzler’s dance team at Blue Valley Northwest …
