A Florida teacher faces felony child abuse charges after a reported incident involving face masks. Largo High School teacher Christina Reszetar allegedly sprayed disinfectant at her students because they weren’t wearing their face masks properly.
According to the Largo Police Department, Reszetar became aggressive because four students refused to wear their face masks properly in the classroom. Reszetar, an Exceptional Student Education math teacher, allegedly sprayed aerosol disinfectant into the faces and bodies of the students.
Reszetar was escorted from the Largo High School, located in a suburb of Tampa, and booked into the Pinellas County jail on Wednesday. She was charged with four counts of felony child abuse with great bodily harm.
The 51-year-old educator appeared before a judge on Thursday.
“In the courtroom, Reszetar told the judge she teaches Learning Disabled Math at Largo High School and has been a teacher for 21 years, 18 of them at Largo High School,” WFLA-TV reported.
“I think I can fairly characterize this as a severely misguided attempt at discipline,” the judge said in court on Thursday.
The incident was reportedly captured on surveillance video, but police have not released a copy of the footage. Reszetar said in court that the video would show the allegations are not true.
The judge asked Reszetar, “Are you going to be able to hire a lawyer to represent you?” The teacher responded, “I will not be able to afford one on my teacher’s salary.”
Reszetar was released from Pinellas County Jail on Thursday night on her own recognizance. Since the teacher had no serious prior record, the judge released her from jail without bond. A Pinellas County School District spokeswoman said Reszetar is still employed with the school district.
As part of its coronavirus precautions, Pinellas County schools require students and staff to wear face masks and maintain 6 feet of social distance.
This isn’t the first time that teachers have allegedly acted erratically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, an Oregon teacher flipped out on anti-lockdown protesters in the town of Bend.
In the summer, teachers organized a mass “sickout” to force a school district in Arizona to cancel reopening during the coronavirus pandemic.
Largo Teacher faces child abuse charges after she said students weren’t wearing masks properly
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***Please bare with me as I tell you of an incident where justice was finally served***As a retired LEO I was sitting in a restaurant with two fellow retired LEO’S several weeks ago. This restaurant required a face mask to be worn while entering the establishment but, it could be removed while dining. Two women sat several tables away just chatting and minding their own business. Enter the left-wing, looney, Biden/Harris (she was wearing a Biden/Harris t-shirt) loving libtard wearing a full face mask, a plastic shield over her entire face with a black head band to keep it in place and the type of rubber gloves that you would do dishes with. She, the loon, proceeded to go table to table screaming about everyone not wearing a mask while seated and that we were going to destroy the world and yelled several other colorful comments. All of the patrons and most of the staff ignored her in hopes that she would just leave and then the loon made a critical error. She approached the two women that I had mentioned earlier and the loon went “full scale bat crap crazy”. The loon then bent down and placed her fore-finger under the nose of the seated woman and pushed it up so hard that the poor woman’s glasses went flying off her head. Without skipping a beat, the assaulted woman stood up, placed her face mask on and punched the loon so hard that the loon fell backwards over a table knocking her mask, shield and glasses completely off her head. The loon then make her second error. She called the Police. In conclusion, after the victim had given the Officer her statement along with the statements of myself and my fellow retired co-workers, the last time that I observed the Biden/Harris loving, liptard loon was being led out the door in handcuffs.