OAN Staff Abril Elfi
4:17 PM – Wednesday, September 11, 2024
A New York teacher has been arrested after being accused of dragging a 5-year-old across the classroom in a headlock while the child screamed “I can’t breathe.”
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Special Education teacher Anthony Wicks, 42, appeared in front of a judge on Tuesday on charges of assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child. During the arraignment he was ordered to stay away from the child.
According to the criminal complaint, Wicks allegedly grabbed the boy by the neck with both hands and dragged “the child across the room while the child was in the headlock.”
Prosecutors stated that the attack happened in front of another teacher.
Anthony Wicks, a teacher at P.S. 153 in Manhattan was arrested for putting a 5-year-old boy in a chokehold after he refused to go to the “time out corner.”
The young boy survived…
