CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A previous specific education teacher in West Virginia was sentenced to the optimum 10 years in jail Tuesday for abusing numerous pupils.
Nancy Boggs was sentenced in Kanawha County Circuit Courtroom stemming from incidents very last September at Holz Elementary School in Charleston, news shops reported.
“You turned your classroom into a position of what can only be described as torture,” Choose Maryclaire Akers explained to Boggs.
BREAKING: Former Holz Elem. special education instructor Nancy Boggs has been sentenced to ten a long time in jail. 1 yr for every battery she pleaded responsible to, to be served consecutively. pic.twitter.com/DOIuuuY4TN
— Leslie Rubin (@LeslieRubinWCHS) August 2, 2022
Boggs, 67, pleaded responsible in Could to 10 misdemeanor counts of battery. Akers requested the sentences of one year on every single count to be served consecutively.
Boggs admitted to hitting one feminine university student with a cabinet doorway, pulling her hair and pulling a chair out from beneath her. Boggs also admitted to slamming yet another child’s head into a desk and slapping a third child. Surveillance cameras captured the classroom incidents.
Nancy Jo Boggs #SCRJ https://t.co/gSgsLioEmy pic.twitter.com/vaSkZaM6ky
— WV Mugshots (@WVMugshots) August 3, 2022
In March, Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill aimed at preserving college students by necessitating general public university directors to check out online video of each and every specific requires classroom periodically and removed a need that video clip footage be deleted following a sure time period. The mothers and fathers of one particular of the college students in Boggs’ circumstance labored with lawmakers to strengthen an present legislation.
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