This is my hometown. There is much more to this story than what is being reported. The school the child attends is a specialized school for students who have demonstrated behavioral problems and the staff at the school are trained in dealing with children with autism. On the day this happened, the child had returned to the school after being absent for an extended period of time and he was there to take a test that would have taken an hour. He was acting up that day and had been in the school for an hour and fifteen minutes and they weren't able to calm him down enough to take the test. The arrest was the result of an assault that happened prior to this and the teacher's injuries were far more than what is being reported. I cannot verify but what I have heard is the teacher's foot was broken as a result of the child stomping the teacher's foot
There is video out there of this child at the time of the arrest. It's rather shocking to listen to this child speaking to his mother. Okeechobee is a very small town and like most small towns, word travels fast here. What you all are hearing is very one sided.