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Paraeducator Admits To Assaulting Non-Verbal Student During Dance Class In Maryland Paraeducator Admits To Assaulting Non-Verbal Student During Dance Class In Maryland
Paraeducator Admits To Assaulting Non-Verbal Student During Dance Class In Maryland A 65-year-old Baltimore woman has been convicted after entering an Alford Plea to second-degree assault involving students with special needs, the Howard County State's Attorney announced this week. Annette Melvina Bouldin was found guilty of second-degree assault for her involvement in an incident last September while she was a paraeducator assisting in the Academic Life Skills dance class at Mount Hebron High School An Alford Plea is a type of guilty plea in which the defendant does not admit to committing the crime but agrees that the prosecution has enough evidence to obtain a convictio…

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by Zak Failla
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'I Thought I Was Gone For Good': Former Anne Arundel County Teacher Run Over By Own Car 'I Thought I Was Gone For Good': Former Anne Arundel County Teacher Run Over By Own Car
'I Thought I Was Gone For Good': Former Anne Arundel County Teacher Run Over By Own Car For a moment, Amanda Kicker thought her life was over. The 27-year-old Prince William County Schools special education teacher was putting air in her tires Saturday, April 29 at an Exxon station on Prince William Parkway, and didn't realize her vehicle wasn't in park. Kicker jumped in front of her car — she needed it. Otherwise, how would she get to school and see her kids?  But the vehicle overpowered Kicker, who is now recovering at Fairfax Hospital with multiple broken ribs, a broken pelvis, broken shoulder blade, knee. "After the first tire ran me over, I thought I was gone …

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by Cecilia Levine
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School Bus Driver In MD Responsible For Sexually Abusing Special Needs Passengers: Prosecutors School Bus Driver In MD Responsible For Sexually Abusing Special Needs Passengers: Prosecutors
School Bus Driver In MD Responsible For Sexually Abusing Special Needs Passengers: Prosecutors Prosecutors say that a school bus driver in Montgomery County who drove special education students was found criminally responsible for sexually abusing four girls on his route following a lengthy investigation. Gaithersburg resident Etienne Kabongo, 67, was found guilty by a jury on Thursday, Feb. 9 to multiple counts of rape and sexual abuse of a minor after one of his victims came forward and several other victims were identified during the investigation. A driver for Montgomery County Public Schools, officials said that one of Kabongo’s victims came forward following an incident in July…

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by Zak Failla
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Special Education Teacher In Virginia Sentenced For Importing MDMA Into The US From Overseas Special Education Teacher In Virginia Sentenced For Importing MDMA Into The US From Overseas
Special Education Teacher In Virginia Sentenced For Importing MDMA Into The US From Overseas A high school special education teacher in the region will spend years behind bars following his sentencing for importing MDMA into the United States from Europe. Virginia resident Andrew Myers, 39, of Newport News, has been sentenced to two years in prison after being busted bringing the drug, more commonly known as ecstasy, into the country from Spain and German. In February 2020, special agents with Homeland Security Investigations and detectives with the Newport News Police Department received a tip that a package containing MDMA was entering the US and was addressed to Myers, officials…

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by Zak Failla
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Anne Arundel County Teachers Rally Over 'Recruitmen Failures," Purported Educator Shortage Anne Arundel County Teachers Rally Over 'Recruitmen Failures," Purported Educator Shortage
Anne Arundel County Teachers Rally Over 'Recruitmen Failures," Purported Educator Shortage Maryland educators and school boards are at odds amid a national teacher shortage after claims that teachers hired through third-party contractors will receive significantly higher wages, officials say. The Anne Arundel Public Schools (AACPS) Board of Education has fired back in a statement against the claims made by the Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County (TAAAC), claiming that the union holds their own interests higher than those of students. "TAAAC’s social media campaign opposing a staffing agency contract to help put caring, capable, qualified, certificated, and consistently pr…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Maryland Runaways Were Out Carjacking Victims, Police Say Maryland Runaways Were Out Carjacking Victims, Police Say
Maryland Runaways Were Out Carjacking Victims, Police Say Three runaways from a special education school in Maryland have been arrested and charged for their roles in a Rockville carjacking, police said. The trio, who were committed to the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents (RICA), allegedly carjacked a man in broad daylight at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 7, according to the Montgomery County Department of Police. It is alleged that the three minors were in the 14800 block of Physicians Lane in Rockville when they approached their victim, who was sitting in his parked Honda CRV, investigators said. As they approached th…

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by Zak Failla
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$2.5M Settlement Reached In Choking Death Of Maryland Student: Report $2.5M Settlement Reached In Choking Death Of Maryland Student: Report
$2.5M Settlement Reached In Choking Death Of Maryland Student: Report Anne Arundel Public Schools has reached a $2.5 million settlement in the case of the negligent death of 17-year-old Bowen Levy, who choked on a rubber glove in school and died days later at a hospital, WMAR reports.  The settlement will go to Bowen's family, whose teen boy with autism ingested the rubber glove at Central Special School in 2019.  The district released a statement on Wednesday, May 5 expressing remorse in the "preventable death," which reads in part: "Bowen’s death has had an enormous impact on many, but nowhere has that impact been more massive than on h…

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by David Cifarelli