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Gay Student Beaten By Teacher's Aide
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: May 23, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET
(Houston, Texas) Houston police are investigating the beating of a high school student by a teacher's aide. The student says was harassed because he is gay by the man throughout the school year, but could not believe it when the man physically assaulted him.
"He would say negative gay things about me," the student told Houston television station KPRC Thursday night. The student, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the man, who is also an assistant coach, assaulted him in a classroom at Westbury High School.
"He proceeded to wrap some plastic around his hand and wrapped it around my neck and pulled me up out of my desk and slammed me to the floor," said the student. "I'm terrified of that man."
The student is recovering at home. X-rays showed that his arm has two hairline fractures.
"I feel like no teacher should ever do that to anybody's child," the student's mother said. "(He was) making remarks about 'gay (expletive).' If my son would have hit that teacher, they would have (dragged) him out by his heels."
Eight other students in the classroom confirmed the student's story the station reported.
The Houston Independent School District said that it is investigating the incident and that the teacher's aide has been reassigned away from students and Westbury.
The student said that he plans to file charges.
"He should work in no other school, with no children," the student said.
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