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Melody LaPointe

School Staffers Lock Starving Special Needs Student in Room Until He Eats his Own Feces

Child Abuse

This week, a Texas teacher and two assistants were arrested for allegedly keeping a 5-year-old special needs student in a locked room last year. Liberty ISD teacher Melody LaPointe, 47, and teaching assistants Tarah Tinney, 33, and Augusta Costlow, 27, reportedly deprived the boy of food to the point that he ate his own feces …

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