MANATEE COUNTY, Fla — A Manatee County middle school teacher has been arrested following a child abuse investigation involving several students in her classroom, deputies say.
Judith Clark, 64, a sixth-grade teacher at Lee Middle School, was taken into custody Tuesday after the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office investigated an incident that occurred days earlier on Wednesday, May 13. Authorities say the case involves multiple students, including at least three who were directly instructed to participate.
Investigators say Clark repeatedly tried to silence a student who was talking during class before asking classmates, “Who wants to slap him?”…