Crime & Justice

Tennessee Teacher Arrested for Slamming 14-Year-Old Girl to Floor

LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE

Carey Sanders, 61, was caught on video “forcefully throwing” a teenage student to the ground, Dyersburg, Tennessee cops said.

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A Tennessee schoolteacher has been charged with assaulting a teenage student after trying to break up a fight, police announced. ​​Carey Sanders, 61, was caught on video “forcefully throwing” a 14-year-old girl to the ground as she tussled with a classmate at a Dyersburg public school on April 18, cops said. He turned himself in Thursday, and was booked and released on bond, according to jail records. The two students were given juvenile citations for disorderly conduct, local CBS affiliate WREG reported. Sanders has been suspended, the school said.

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