Police Observation In Elementary Education

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The investigation I found involves a police arrest of an elementary school tutor in the Nashville area after three kids were found in the trunk of his car. The man was charged with reckless endangerment of a child. A Witness includes a customer at a speedway that saw three kids approximately 9 years old getting out of the trunk of the car. The suspect, whose name is James, denies everything saying they were never in his car or in the store with her. She does say that they did spend the night at her house though. James may say that she is not responsible but surveillance video at the speedway shows otherwise. A police officer named Hayes says that on the surveillance it is clear that three kids exit from James car. The Metropolitan Nashville …show more content…

My question is why do people say they 're innocent even if they know there 's evidence to prove they’re guilty. Another thing i found interesting is that students are allowed to stay the night at her house, I found that interesting because I have never heard of students staying the night at a teachers house and it being “normal” or “appropriate.” One last thing I found interesting was how she wasn 't fired but simply put on administrative leave. In my opinion if I was the district spokesman I would have simply fired her because if a teacher puts students lives in danger they should not be able to teach.
My opinion on what should happen is that she should serve time for this. Offenses against children are very serious in the sense that you serve more time for hurting a child. I think a way that she will definitely serve time is if the children are talked to by the police and they say whether she had locked them in the trunk or not. With this kind of evidence the investigation would be over and the women would either be serving time, on probation, or if the evidence from the children points that she is innocent she may just be