DALLAS — A Dallas County juvenile detention officer was arrested after deputies alleged he assaulted a 15-year-old in custody late last month, leaving the youth with a broken nose, fractured bones, and visible shoe print marks on his face, court records showed.
Stephen Puzio, 35, faces a felony aggravated assault by a public servant charge for the September 21 incident, where deputies said he put the teenager into a chokehold for 12 seconds, then stepped on his face after his unconscious body fell to the ground.
“When I saw my son, I was speechless. I was like, what in the world has happened to my baby,” said Christina Poarch, the boy’s mother. She said he had a broken eye socket, a chipped tooth, a broken nose and other fractures and scrapes on his face…