A Texas teacher and her two assistants were charged with endangering a child due to an incident in April 2021.
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Melody LaPointe,47, Tarah Tinney,33, and Augusta Costlow,27, were accused of putting a five-year-old male student with special needs in an isolation room at a Liberty Independent School District building. As reported by FOX 26 Houston, the three women allegedly deprived him of food which forced him to eat his feces and drink his urine. Amid the accusations, Tinney and Costlow resigned but LaPointe worked for another school district. After the charges were filed, the school district placed LaPointe on leave.
A district spokesman said they have contacted authorities regarding the incident and reported their actions to the State Board for Educator Certification.
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“We immediately reported the matter to law enforcement and CPS (Child Protective Services), removed the educators who continued to work for us from the classroom, and conducted a comprehensive investigation,”
Based upon our investigation, we reported the educators to the State Board for Educator Certification and shared our results with law enforcement officials,”
Parents also criticized the district for hiring LaPointe despite knowing she was involved in the case.
’You are supposed to send them there to be protected, and they hire this lady who apparently they did not do an extensive background check on and hurt a child, left this child locked up in a room, having to eat his own feces and drink his own urine. It’s disturbing,’ said Amanda Henry.
The three former educators are currently booked at the Liberty County Jail and each of their bonds have been set at $60,000.