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A Mesa Kindergarten teacher has been booked into jail on 25 counts of indecent exposure and one count of child abuse after police said he removed a 6-year-old girl's shirt as a form of punishment.
Thomas Washburn, 54, a teacher at Adams Elementary School, was arrested Wednesday when the incident reportedly occurred.
Police said something upset Washburn, who started shouting in the classroom filled with more than two dozen youngsters.
"She told me yesterday that he was really aggressive - telling them to shut up - real aggressively," said Israel Gonzalez, whose daughter was also in Washburn's class but is not the victim in this case.
The outburst frightened the victim and she hid her face in the top of her shirt, officers said.
The victim's mother said her daughter was born prematurely and is "developmentally delayed," according to a police report.
Officers said Washburn told the girl to take her face out of the shirt and when she did not comply, he went to her and completely removed her shirt, leaving her naked from the waist up in front of her classmates for about 10 minutes.
The girl broke down crying, police said. Washburn eventually returned her clothing.
"Total humiliation," said Daniel Mercado, who has children who attend Adams Elementary. "What is she going to do now - from first grade on? What are the parents going to think of this? Not only her parents but other parents, other parents at the school like myself? I think he went too far. He went way too far."
http://www.kpho.com/story/24475228/...-from-waist-up-in-packed-classroom?hpt=ju_bn3
Thomas Washburn, 54, a teacher at Adams Elementary School, was arrested Wednesday when the incident reportedly occurred.
Police said something upset Washburn, who started shouting in the classroom filled with more than two dozen youngsters.
"She told me yesterday that he was really aggressive - telling them to shut up - real aggressively," said Israel Gonzalez, whose daughter was also in Washburn's class but is not the victim in this case.
The outburst frightened the victim and she hid her face in the top of her shirt, officers said.
The victim's mother said her daughter was born prematurely and is "developmentally delayed," according to a police report.
Officers said Washburn told the girl to take her face out of the shirt and when she did not comply, he went to her and completely removed her shirt, leaving her naked from the waist up in front of her classmates for about 10 minutes.
The girl broke down crying, police said. Washburn eventually returned her clothing.
"Total humiliation," said Daniel Mercado, who has children who attend Adams Elementary. "What is she going to do now - from first grade on? What are the parents going to think of this? Not only her parents but other parents, other parents at the school like myself? I think he went too far. He went way too far."
http://www.kpho.com/story/24475228/...-from-waist-up-in-packed-classroom?hpt=ju_bn3