A Georgia teacher who was awarded “Teacher of the Year” at his middle school was recently fired and arrested for hitting one of his students numerous times.
According to WXIA, Melvin McClain was charged with first-degree cruelty to children, two counts of third-degree cruelty to children and simple battery following an alleged assault on Dec. 1.
Police reports allege that McClain struck 13-year-old Malachi Sherman in the head and stomach roughly 20 times. Classroom surveillance footage caught when McClain asked Sherman and another student stay behind after class before attacking Sherman, news outlets reported.
“The teacher got upset with him and dismissed the class. He told him to stay back,” Daniell Offett, Sherman’s mother, told WXIA. “He yelled for him to come back into classroom and when he came back into the classroom, he pinned him to the wall and assaulted him, hitting him in the chest and the head multiple times in front of the little girl.”…