‘Yeeted me off the couch’: Behavioral school worker slings 10-year-old across room ‘like Superman’ following dispute over blanket, cops and mom say

A Tennessee man working at a behavioral school for children got into a spat with a 10-year-old and instead of “de-escalating” chose to tussle with the boy, with his mom saying he slung the youth across a dayroom by his ankle, according to cops.

“Yeeted me off the couch so fast like Superman,” the child allegedly told his mother, Katelyn Swainson, who spoke to the local TV station Clarksville Now this week.

William Sturgill, 43, is charged with one count of child abuse or endangerment for the May incident at Oak Plains Academy after being arrested in August. A trial was set Monday for Dec. 15, according to online court records…

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