A teacher was hospitalized after a 5-year-old Pines Lakes Elementary student attacked her.
Highlights
- A Broward County teacher was hospitalized on Wednesday after a 5-year-old student attacked her, police said.
- The student used fists and feet to hit his teacher shortly after 10 a.m., on Wednesday in the “Cool Down’s room.
- She was feeling “faint,” “weak, and dazed” before she started coughing and dry heaving.
- Firefighters used a stretcher to take the teacher out of the classroom and took her to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.
- She is facing a charge of aggravated assault with hands, fists, and feet, according to the incident report, police say.