East Texas teacher arrested after video shows her hitting student
A high school teacher in east Texas was arrested Friday after video allegedly showed her slapping a student.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Mary Hastings, a teacher at Ozen High School near Beaumont, was arrested Friday on an assault charge. According to a statement from Beaumont ISD obtained by KBMT, the conduct was substantiated by video viewed by BISD police and administrators.
A video posted to Twitter on Friday allegedly shows Hastings slapping a student repeatedly in the back of the head and then mocking him.
@pside_prince this. pic.twitter.com/ItIkgq9Pw1
— khay (@khay2you) April 8, 2016
This story was originally published April 8, 2016 at 5:25 PM with the headline "East Texas teacher arrested after video shows her hitting student."