Source: WISH-TV
INDIANAPOLIS–Charges have been filed against a teenage boy who is accused of punching a substitute teacher in the face at Perry Meridian High School on February 1.
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday that they have charged a 16-year-old boy with battery resulting in moderate bodily injury and criminal recklessness. They are not releasing his name because he is being charged in juvenile court.
The teacher is 75-year-old Rob Gooding. He ended up with a black eye and had to be taken to a hospital in an ambulance that day in February.
When paramedics arrived, Gooding says, a school district police officer was by his side. He immediately said he wanted to press charges.
“Then he said to me, ‘We have been instructed by the higher-ups, which is the district, not to handcuff, or arrest the kid,’ and I said, ‘What?’ and he said, ‘Yes, that came from the higher-ups,’” Gooding said in an interview with our newsgathering partners at WISH-TV.
Gooding also told WISH-TV in late February that he wanted the boy to face consequences at his young age so he can learn a valuable lesson and help prevent him from getting in trouble in the future.
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