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Student's Hand Injury Under Investigation

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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by John Madewell  An incident involving an assistant principal and student at Heritage High School in Catoosa County is under two investigations.The student walked away with an obviously bruised hand and needed medical treatment.On Wednesday, 15-year-old Aaron Black ended up in Assistant Principal Eric Beagles' office for disciplinary reasons from words exhanged with another student. What followed in Beagle's office has raised several questions.This afternoon, Black's hand remains in a stint and under wrap. His mother, Davida Caylor, provided pictures of his hand which revealed a purple-yellow bruise across the top of his hand and swollen knuckles.On Wednesday,he and another student had exchanged words. This freshman didn't agree with the punishment Beagles gave him of three days in school suspension. He described what happened inside Beagles' office. I said okay well I'll just call my dad and see what he thinks about this since you won't even let me tell my side of the story. Then, I went to reach for his phone. I went over there and went like this and he grabbed my hand and squeezed and turned it and slammed it really hard (into the desk).His mother's first reaction when she saw the injury, Words can't express it, I was beyond infuriated, Caylor said.She took him to the emergency room at Hutcheson at Erlanger. NewsChannel 9 went to Heritage High for the school's account of this.Principal Ronnie Bradford said the student refused the discipline, but gave a different account of how the injury happened. Bradford said, At that point the student grabbed the phone off the assistant principal's desk. The assistant principal grabbed the receiver, put the receiver down and the student's hand was under the receiver when the receiver was put down and there was an injury there.The Catoosa County Sheriff's Office is trying to sort out the details. Sheriff Gary Sisk told us, We have filed a report on that incident and it has been assigned to the investigative division and the victim has been interviewed.Caylor stressed she is very pleased with Heritage High and Principal Bradford, but this incident left her very upset. I just want Mr. Beagles away from the school system. If you can't control your temper and you can't think on an adult level and not on a child's level, then you don't need to be there.Currently Beagles remains on the job. Principal Bradford said, Right now, we're reviewing the situation. I'm working with our Human Resources Director. We're currently talking to folks and reviewing everything.Bradford said Beagles has been at Heritage High since the school opened five years ago and has no issues in his file.He added, in general, teachers are to keep their hands off students unless it's to break up a fight for example.Meanwhile, Black also went to the Children's Advocacy Center for a forensic interview.NewsChannel 9 will be following this story as it develops and the investigations continue.

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