Teacher put kid in headlock, report says

Middle school student tried to film incident with his cellphone.

A Rome Middle School teacher accused of influencing three students to help her take and destroy another child’s cellphone after he used it to record her allegedly putting a student in a headlock was arrested.

The Rome News-Tribune reported that Kasey Christian Green, 32, of Euharlee, turned herself in at the Floyd County Jail early Tuesday and was charged with three felony counts of second-degree cruelty to children, a felony count of criminal damage to property, three misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquen- cy of a minor, one misdemeanor count of being a party to the crime of theft by taking, and one misdemeanor count of disruption of a public school.

The charges stem from a Feb. 20 incident in which Green allegedly put a child in a headlock, then conspired to destroy a boy’s cellphone when he used it to take video of the incident.

Rome police Detective Stephanie Hill-Hudson told the News-Tribune that Green had allegedly grappled with the owner of the cellphone in November, and the boy’s parents told him to try to record it if it happened again.

Police said Green then conspired with three other students to take the boy’s phone, and told those students to lie to school officials if asked about the incident.

Green was released from jail on $6,500 bond.

The teacher allegedly put a child in a headlock, then conspired to destroy a boy’s cellphone when he used it to take video of the incident.