FL - Teacher and aide caught on camera tying 7-year old non-verbal student to chair - 2/7/2024

[Clearsky]

MSN

Officers say security cameras caught 31-year-old teacher Carina Chindamo and her teacher's aide, 39-year-old Taylor Internicola, tying the wrists of a 7-year-old, non-verbal boy.

 

[tlcya]

‘You guys failed my child’: Bradenton teacher, aide accused of tying child with autism to chair for one hour
Video from the playground of G.D. Rogers Garden-Bullock Elementary School on Friday allegedly shows Carina Chindamo, 31, and aide Taylor Internicola, 39, using a nylon walking rope to tie up the child, police said.

The child’s mother, Takeila Jones, said the school’s principal called her saying an issue had occurred with her son.
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Chindamo and Internicola were allegedly seen on the video several times sitting on the chair to keep the child restrained by using their weight, according to police.

2 Manatee County school employees face charges after tying up 7-year-old, police say Read more at: https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/crime/article285159412.html#storylink=cpy
Exceptional Student Education teacher Carina Chindamo, 31, and teacher’s aide Taylor Internicola, 39, will be charged with false imprisonment, the police department said in a news release Tuesday afternoon.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Every child with disabilities has a school team that works with the family & the child’s medical team to ensure proper & safe responses for their behaviors. I know hog tying a child isn’t on it!!! WTH?

 

[PayrollNerd]

I don't see either of them listed yet on the Manatee County Online Records search. There's an old housing case for Taylor Internicola but nothing for Carina Chindamo.

https://records.manateeclerk.com/CourtRecords/Search/CaseType/1/25/2023-12-08/2024-02-08?caseTypeId=10&filingTypeId=0

 

[mickey2942]

I just don't understand this at all. I have read so many incidents like this. I worked in education for over 20 years, almost all in Special Education. I have never had a situation that merited holding down a child, and tying him up.

I am sure that these teachers have had training in restraining students, that uses physical restraint. More like giving a child a big bear hug. Never ever using any type of ropes to tie kids up. And if you do any sort of physical restraint, you have to fill out a load of paperwork.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Case: 2024MM000362AX
CARINA MARIE CHINDAMO

Charges:

Hearing:

Docket:

Search Court Records - Manatee County Clerk

 

[PayrollNerd]

2024MM000344AX
TAYLOR INTERNICOLA
DOB 12/28/1984

Charge:

Hearing

Docket

https://records.manateeclerk.com/CourtRecords/Search/Person

 

[mickey2942]

"Simple Battery" for tying up a child? Especially a disabled child, and the perpetrators were supposedly trusted authority figures?

They probably won't even get a day in jail.