A 350-pound instructor in Minnesota has been charged after he allegedly used a Sixth-grade scholar as a “stepping stool” throughout a faculty security drill, cops stated.
Jason Rogers, 48, confessed to standing on the boy’s again after the coed opted to lie on his abdomen — as a substitute of sitting down — throughout the drill on the Underwood College final month, the Star Tribune reported, citing court docket paperwork.
The boy’s mom stated the saga had left her son so badly injured that he “was strolling round like an 80-year-old from the ache in his again,” the prison grievance states.
Authorities have been solely alerted to the ordeal after the boy was taken to the hospital to be handled for his accidents, cops stated.
The boy advised cops his instructor stood on his again for roughly 10 seconds — inflicting him to cry out in ache.
“[The child] didn’t know why Defendant did this as a result of he didn’t hear him say something about it and simply stepped on him like he was a ‘stepping stool’,” the prison grievance stated.
“He acknowledged all the class noticed it and thought Defendant had damaged [the boy’s] again.”
When questioned, Rogers — who acknowledged he weighed roughly 350 kilos — allegedly admitted he did it as a result of he didn’t suppose the scholars have been taking the drill critically sufficient on the time.
He stated a number of youngsters have been mendacity on their stomachs and that he had warned them he “may step on them of their present place.”
Rogers then allegedly put his foot on the injured scholar’s decrease again and put his weight on him, the court docket paperwork acknowledged.
After listening to the boy groan and say “ouch,” Rogers advised cops he requested the kid if he was OK.
The instructor additionally copped to stepping on two different college students throughout the drill, in accordance with the grievance.
He was slapped with one gross misdemeanor depend of malicious punishment of a kid in consequence.
Rogers has since been placed on paid administrative depart whereas the incident is investigated, a spokesperson for the Underwood Public Colleges district stated.
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