COCONUT CREEK, Fla. – A Broward County Public Schools teacher stands accused of abusing a student in Broward County.
Broward Sheriff’s Office inmate records show Christopher Cagle was at the main jail on Friday in Fort Lauderdale. He works as a science teacher at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek.
On Friday morning, at Monarch High School, a student told Local 10 News that he saw a student and a teacher get into “a fight” on Thursday afternoon.
According to the victim’s mother, Miranda Wood, Cagle slammed her son’s head on the desk in class.
The injuries were serious enough that he had to go to the emergency room. Wood said the entire situation was horrific.
The incident allegedly occurred around 1 p.m. Thursday in front of students.
Cagle appeared in bond court Friday, where a judge said part of the incident was captured on video by other students and that it appears that it was “completely unwarranted.”
“The individual has been reassigned away from the school and students pending the outcome of the case,” Cathleen Brennan, a spokeswoman for BCPS, wrote in a statement.
According to Scotty Leamon, a spokesman for the Coconut Creek Police Department, police officers arrested Cagle, 64, of Deerfield Beach, on Thursday.
Broward County court records show Cagle is facing a third-degree felony charge of child abuse without great bodily harm and Circuit Judge Ernest A. Kollra was set to preside over the case.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editors Wilson Louis and Frine Gomez, and Photojournalist Lani Yasuk-Carrier contributed to this report.