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Two Georgia preschool teachers were arrested Monday after parents watched a classroom surveillance video that allegedly showed teachers abusing children.
Police began investigating the alleged abuse on June 3 after a parent contacted Rosewell Police Department to express concern about his son’s safety at school.
The father reportedly logged into the school’s camera system and saw “physical contact” in the two teachers ’interactions with several students in the classroom, according to a statement from Rosewell Police Department.
Two Georgia preschool teachers were arrested Monday after parents watched a classroom surveillance video that allegedly showed teachers abusing children in the classroom. (Rosewell Police Department)
After further investigation, authorities obtained the video and arrested both teachers based on the actions of the two teachers. Zeina Alostwani, 40, and Soriana Briceno, 19, were charged with first-degree child cruelty.
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Gloria Barghi, the mother of one of the students, said she had a “strange” feeling that she needed to control her son.
“I just told my husband, I said, ‘Call it mother’s intuition.’ I just want to see if it’s okay,” Barghi told WSB-TV. “I took out the app. I grabbed it just when the head teacher was assaulting the first victim. It was intentional. It was thought out. It was malicious … these are helpless little kids.
Classroom or empty classroom (iStock)
“They had no established policies. There was no such thing as ‘If this happens, these are the procedures we are going through’, to the point that I had to demand that the teachers be removed from the classroom.
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“And we wouldn’t leave until they were removed. The director even looked at me and asked, ‘So you want me to take them out?’ And I said, “You better believe it. Get them out now. “
Alostwani and Briceno were taken to Fulton County Jail on Monday.