The Brief
- A teacher’s aide will be sentenced for using hot sauce to discipline a student with autism last year.
- Attorneys for the family say she admitted to the assault.
- The teacher’s aide said the 9-year-old student “deserved it,” according to a police report.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A status hearing will take place on Monday for the Washington D.C. teacher’s aide who used hot sauce to discipline a nonverbal child with autism.
What we know:
Imani Davis will be criminally sentenced in DC Superior Court for assault charges in connection with the incident that happened at J.C. Nalle Elementary in Southeast DC in September 2025.…