5 Year Old Says Teacher Duct-Taped Him To Desk

[matcom]

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COCOA, Fla. -- A Brevard County teacher was placed on leave while Cocoa police investigate allegations she duct-taped a kindergarten student to a desk as punishment.

"My teacher duct-taped me to that table," 5-year-old Dylan Negron said.

Dylan told his mother that his teacher, Mrs. Maki Monje, at Cambridge Elementary was punishing him because he wouldn't put his head down on the desk on Friday. His mother, Donna Negron, said she immediately reported the incident to the school and police.

"I'm very hurt," she said, "Thinking that I was sending him to school and he'd be safe at school and I didn't expect nothing like that to happen."

The teacher is on leave until the police investigation is finished.

Eyewitness News went to the teacher's house to get her side of the story, but her husband said she was not available for comment.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/11130175/detail.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Effing control freak...

:grr:

[graywarrior]

2. I have no right to comment on this.

[redwitch]

7. I was certain you would weigh in on this one.

Tell us why you did it. People who duct tape ducks will eventually move on to children and then larger mammals. Step away from the duct tape before someone gets hurt. (I was going to say sticky but thought better of it). :-)

[graywarrior]

10. Would it help my case if I said I got it from some long forgotten Du'er from 2002?

[redwitch]

12. probably not, unless they were tombstoned.

And you will have to provide proof. Just be warned, the judge is tough on serial duck tapers.

[graywarrior]

13. And who is this judge?

:tinfoilhat:

[redwitch]

15. Judge Judy of course!

She is tough, but fair. OR, you might get Judge Whatisface who cried for the cameras recently, not sure.

[graywarrior]

20. Judge Judy is a freaking lunatic.

She needs to get another life outside her fantasy courtroom.

[RevolutionaryActs]

11. ..

:evilgrin:

[graywarrior]

14. Yay!!!

:applause:

[Deja Q]

3. The kid could be lying too.

Still, anything can happen...

i just miss the days when a female teacher luring her student for sex was the plot of early-90s lowbrow sitcoms and not reported as actual news...

[LostInAnomie]

4. I guess the stapler ran out of ammo

:evilgrin:

[MissB]

5. We threaten to duct tape the kids to the walls.

But we're joking and they know it.

[jus_the_facts]

6. I had my mouth scotch taped closed when I was 5...at a daycare center...

:(

[KamaAina]

8. Florida AGAIN!!!

You really must consider heading on down there, good sir. The comedic possibilities are endless, plus you get to vote seven or eight times. :-)

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. Florida eh?

Anyone know where graywarrior is? :o

[sasquatch]

18. .

:spank:

[graywarrior]

21. Why I outta...

:evilgrin:

[Kali]

16. ...

[Dukkha]

17. I was expecting a BDSM story here

sounds like a brownshirt teaching there.

[LeftyMom]

19. I could swear Mitch McConnell's daughter did the same thing a few years back

She was (is?) a teacher at a Waldorf school, but I can't seem to find a link.

[Horse with no Name]

22. My 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Layton

used to grab us by the head of hair and beat our heads on the desk.
Those are the good old days in school that people speak of.:silly:

[LeftyMom]

24. Similar stories left my father with a lifelong fear of nuns and authority figures generally.

It floors me that there are states where teachers are still allowed to hit students, in public schools even (and some states where the parents can't even forbid it!)

[realisticphish]

23. I dunno

age five is right on the bubble where you can't just take the kid's word for it. I'm not saying he's lying, but I've seen kids make up much stranger and more disturbing stuff than this (not deliberately, a lot of times, it's just that they have a hard time differentiating reality and fantasy).

I'll wait and see what happens with this.