A 15-year-old Georgia high school girl who brutally attacked a teacher earlier this year — a beatdown captured on video — has been sentenced to a year behind bars.
What’s the background?
The attack took place Jan. 26 at Heritage High School in Conyers. Raw video shows the student getting in the teacher’s face and hollering, “I don’t give a f*** if you’re an adult or not! You’re not gonna talk to me like that, you dumbass bitch!”
The teacher, Tiwana Turner, told WAGA-TV the girl was angry about her phone being confiscated.
Things quickly got physical as the student repeatedly hit Turner and grabbed her hair before the pair tumbled through a classroom door and then hit a hallway floor. The student then got on top of Turner and repeatedly hit her.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
Turner’s right knee appeared to buckle amid the fall, and after the student was pulled away, Turner was heard saying, “My leg’s broken.”
Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @RobDiRienzo
What happened next?
Immediately after the attack, the student was was detained, taken to a juvenile facility, and charged with aggravated battery. Rockdale County Public Schools told WSB-TV the student was suspended.
WAGA last week reported that a county assistant district attorney said the girl pleaded guilty to aggravated battery against a teacher — a felony — and that a judge sentenced her to a year behind bars at a youth detention center to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Turner was hospitalized with leg injuries and was unable to walk.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @RobDiRienzo
Teacher speaks out
Turner recently spoke to WAGA, which reported that she remains out of work and needs crutches and a walker to get around.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
“I can’t go to work, I can’t see my students. I can’t do anything that I used to do. I can’t drive,” she told the station.
Turner added to WAGA that she’s noticed a distinct negative change in student temperament since she began teaching 27 years ago.
“I would say that if I had to start teaching with this generation of students, I wouldn’t have been able to,” she noted to the station.
Cell phones are one part of the problem.
“The cell phones, they’re able to bring them to school. It’s becoming a huge issue. It’s like their livelihood,” Turner told WAGA. “You take it away, some of them go berserk.”
Anything else?
Turner noted to the station that she’s received a lot of support since the attack — financial and otherwise — from people around the world.
“People who don’t know me have reached out to me. Have helped me. Are praying for me. Supporting,” she revealed to WAGA. “That kind of treatment that holds you up when you fall. […] I don’t take any of it for granted.”
Nearly $29,000 has been raised through GoFundMe to help cover Turner’s expenses as she recovers.
Turner added to the station that she hopes the “young lady” who attacked her “will grow from this” and receives “the help she needs.”
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