A North Carolina deputy superintendent in charge of legal and compliance has been indicted for allegedly misleading cops who were investigating a teacher’s aide tying a 6-year-old girl with autism to a chair with a jump rope.
Tanya Janique Giovanni, who served as the deputy superintendent for administrative, legal and compliance service for Durham schools, was indicted this week on six charges of felony obstruction of justice. She is accused of trying to “obstruct, impede, or hinder public or legal justice into an investigation of child abuse of minor involving the abuse of minor child that was tied to chair at Eno Valley Elementary school, as depicted in still photograph.”
The school administrator was allegedly in possession of a statement about the incident from the school principal that she did not disclose to cops, and prevented another school employee from answering questions by law enforcement looking into the matter. She also allegedly denied there was an investigative file looking into the incident and claimed to have looked into every email of a retired school employee that had ties to the investigation…