Community service sentence for principal
November 14, 2005
AUSTIN BURRELL, principal of Penwood High School in St. Andrew, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service last Friday in the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate's Court for assaulting one of his teachers.
Loanna Carty, science teacher at the school, told The Gleaner recently that the fight between the two began when the principal went to her classroom demanding that she attend a meeting.
She related that he also wanted the keys to the science department, where the meeting was to be held, because he did not have a key to gain entry. Mrs. Carty said she told him that she was going to lock up the classroom. She then went to the teacher's desk with the lock and keys in her hands and the principal followed her. An argument developed between the two and she said the principal grabbed and squeezed her hands.
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Author: Petrina Francis
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
