YET ANOTHER WWHS
This one comes from the tabloid New York Post, so a big grain of salt may be warranted. That being said, if true it’s pretty bad:
December 6, 2003 — A classroom aide allegedly went berserk inside a Brooklyn school this week, punching a 7-year-old special-education student and slamming his head into a microwave oven – because the child didn’t know the date.
The boy’s mother says school officials then tried to cover up the incident.Kenneth Wooten, 40, a city schools paraprofessional with a criminal record, is accused of beating Isaiah Dunham at PS 327 in Brownsville as a teacher and other schoolkids looked on in shock.
The assault took place at around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, after Wooten confronted the boy and demanded the child tell him the date, cops said.
When no answer came from Isaiah, who suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder, Wooten allegedly punched him in the gut and repeated the question.
When the 7-year-old still couldn’t answer, Wooten slapped the boy in the face and punched him in the head, chest and back about four times, police said.
He then grabbed Isaiah and threw him against the microwave, where he hit his head and back, cops said.
Mom Felicia Dunham said school officials downplayed the beating as “an altercation” between her son and the aide when they first told her what happened.
When Dunham asked if school officials would call the police, the principal instead suggested that she meet Wooten to work out their differences.
Dunham is also angry that the nurse did not send her child to the hospital, where he was later taken and treated for bruises, swelling, scratches and a bump on his head.
“They made it sound like it was nothing,” Dunham said. “They told me to just put ice on it.”
After Dunham went to the cops, Wooten was charged with third-degree assault, menacing, endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree harassment.
Schools officials said Wooten was put on administrative duty in the central district office, away from students.
The Brooklyn man has been arrested three times by the NYPD.
He was busted twice for drug possession, and a third time for drug possession, trespassing and resisting arrest, sources said. Wooten could not be reached at home last night, but his mother said: “Kenny’s not the type of person who would do this.”