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Cops: Teacher attacked 1st grader for having too much food at lunch
EAGnews.org ^ | February 4, 2015 | Victor Skinner

Posted on 02/04/2015 8:18:37 AM PST by Reverend Saltine

FRANCISVILLE, La. – A Louisiana teacher is out of a job after police allege she kicked and slapped one of her first grade students last month.

Chanel Lemelle, 31, resigned from her position at Bains Lower Elementary School in St. Francisville last week as investigators looked into allegations she struck a student in the cafeteria during lunch Jan. 23, The Advocate reports.

“She’s very sad that this is going on,” Lemelle’s attorney, Don Cazayoux, told the news site. “She loves teaching, loves her students and would never do anything to hurt any of her children.”

Camera footage of the school’s cafeteria and witness reports, however, tell a different story.

“A sheriff’s deputy who reviewed camera footage of the incident wrote in an arrest report that as the student walked by Lemelle in the school’s cafeteria, she could be seen kicking him in the rear,” according to The Advocate.

“The video also showed her slapping the boy on the back of the head, the deputy wrote.”

Prior to the incident, witnesses said Lemelle yelled at the student “in a loud and degrading manner because he was not walking like he was supposed to,” and held the child back from the lunch line until his classmates received their food, according to the police report.

When the student returned with his lunch, Lemelle allegedly made the child sit by himself, then took some of his food, telling him “he only needed one taco,” the news site reports.

The student recounted the same story when interviewed by Child Advocacy Services, according to the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Lemelle was charged with one count of cruelty to juveniles Monday, immediately posted a $20,000 bail, and was released. She was replaced by a new teacher the same day, superintendent Hollis Milton told The Advocate.

Witnesses told a sheriff’s deputy that it wasn’t the first time Lemelle was inappropriate with students.

They said she often brought an empty plate to lunch and filled it with food from her students. One of the witnesses also allegedly found Lemelle in the hallway about a week ago with the same student she’s charged with abusing. The child was crying and Lemelle was yelling and “waiving a stick at him,” according to the police report.

Lemelle has taught in the district the last 10 years, and is the daughter of a retired federal prosecutor who now operates a private law firm with Cazayoux, The Advocate reports.

Many parents who commented on the story online were clearly not impressed with Lemelle’s alleged conduct.

“If I was that child’s mother, you’d have to hold me back. The camera doesn’t lie!” Dee Murphy posted to Facebook. “Let’s hope the child gets counseling and justice is rightfully served on her (without daddy’s wrongful intervention)! Makes me sick!!!”

“She’s lucky she wasn’t my child!” Stan Smith wrote.

Other parents in the district allege school officials have a history of tacitly condoning bullying behavior.

“I know what my child has experienced within this school district,” Michelle A. Gaines posted. “My child was belittled by a teacher in front of a whole classroom full of kids, he was verbally assaulted by a student, and knocked down all in the presence of a teacher. Nothing was done. I have gone to the school several times …”

“This school system is horrible and they cover up so much wrong doing. I feel sorry for other parents who have had the same issues and pulled their kids from this school district. I have recently pulled my child,” she wrote.

Superintendent Milton, meanwhile, contends Lemelle’s abuse allegations are in contrast to “the positive, warm culture that children experience every day” at the school, according to The Advocate.

“At the end of the day, it’s still a wonderful school,” he said.


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1 posted on 02/04/2015 8:18:37 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
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To: Reverend Saltine

Did the Student take her share ?


2 posted on 02/04/2015 8:19:24 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Guilty!


3 posted on 02/04/2015 8:20:10 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: Seruzawa
I know kids and that is smelly chenelly lemelly
4 posted on 02/04/2015 8:22:15 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Just once, I wish I was wrong. Are there any kids missing, because it looks like she ate one.

5 posted on 02/04/2015 8:22:48 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Reverend Saltine

“Lemelle has taught in the district the last 10 years, and is the daughter of a retired federal prosecutor”

Most likely where she learned to be a bully.


6 posted on 02/04/2015 8:24:35 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Reverend Saltine

She bullied that poor kid. Hope she has fun trying to get another job.


7 posted on 02/04/2015 8:25:13 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Reverend Saltine

Just wow.

My dogs fight and get jealous over food ... I guess teachers do, too.


8 posted on 02/04/2015 8:25:20 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Boogieman

” would never do anything to hurt any of her children”
Whoops guess what,she did.Dismissed


9 posted on 02/04/2015 8:26:15 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t teachers know, those children go home and tell their parents EVERYTHING. Especially first graders who have no filter.


10 posted on 02/04/2015 8:26:16 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

THAT was freaking FUNNY!! :)

Hahahahah!


11 posted on 02/04/2015 8:27:44 AM PST by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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To: Reverend Saltine

If oshiitehead had a sister it would look like this nazitwat.


12 posted on 02/04/2015 8:28:40 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Never hammer down a pint of vodka before work.


13 posted on 02/04/2015 8:29:23 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: Reverend Saltine

The article states she has taught for ten years. I wonder if she has been doing this so long (and the school hid it?) or just recently went bat poop crazy?


14 posted on 02/04/2015 8:29:33 AM PST by momtothree
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To: Seruzawa

If this has been going on for some time, how many more teacher perps are there?

Common Core, Data Mining, Teacher Perps, etc. I vote for home schooling. The argument that homeschoolers cannot adjust in society may have a point. . . society has changed big time for the worse!


15 posted on 02/04/2015 8:29:34 AM PST by Maudeen
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To: Reverend Saltine
“She loves teaching, loves her students and would never do anything to hurt any of her children.”

It never fails. Someone gets caught on tape doing X, and the perp (or someone close to the perp) is quoted saying "__________ would never do X."

16 posted on 02/04/2015 8:29:51 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: nuconvert

She bullied that poor kid. Hope she has fun trying to get another job.


Bullying? I call it premeditated assault. Jail Time!


17 posted on 02/04/2015 8:30:36 AM PST by Maudeen
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To: Reverend Saltine

Remind me to show you how to resize images.


18 posted on 02/04/2015 8:30:48 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Boogieman

No. She didn’t ‘learn’ that behavior because her daddy was a prosecutor. She ‘learned’ it because there are far too many black women out there who jump up on counters at Burger King and throw a Simian Hissy Fit because they didn’t supersize the fries or similar and they got off scot free with it. Her culture demands it and she, they demand to be immune when they protest anything. She, however, messed up when she forgot the one Democrat mantra, “For the Children.”

That’s where she learned it.


19 posted on 02/04/2015 8:31:23 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Reverend Saltine

They said she often brought an empty plate to lunch and filled it with food from her students.

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So she got a free lunch by stealing from the students. She reminds me of politicians and their cronies.


20 posted on 02/04/2015 8:31:58 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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