Sentenced: Ohio 15YO Felt Like He Was ‘In A Dream’ After Beating 60YO Teacher Unconscious After Hitting Vape

[Sugar Cookie]

Ohio prosecutors are demanding that a Cincinnati teen be charged as an adult for beating a 60-year-old female teacher unconscious last month, as police released disturbing new bodycam footage from the incident this week.

Officials said the 15-year-old assailant repeatedly punched the special education teacher in the head after taking a hit from a vape in a school bathroom and ingesting an unknown drug.

New bodycam footage shows police interviewing the attacker inside the school after the Jan. 4 incident.

“I think I’m in a dream,” the student states repeatedly. “Am I in a dream?”

At another point, he tells a teacher attempting to restrain him that he “needs a hug” and insists that he’s “not crazy.”

Despite his age, prosecutors are hoping that a Cincinnati judge will try the teen’s case as an adult due to the severity of the injuries sustained in the attack.

That ruling is expected by Monday.

The veteran educator’s head trauma was so severe from the repeated blows that surgeons removed her skull cap to relieve pressure on her brain.

She remained unconscious for several days after the operation and is continuing to recuperate, her family has said.

According to an incident report, the teen suddenly attacked another classmate who was working on a computer, prompting the teacher to tell him that she would have to call for security.

“She said she was going to call the police and I started punching,” he can be heard telling an officer while holding the hand of an unknown staffer.

The teen said he was “glitching” during the incident and later began hitting himself in the head in an attempt to “wake up” from the drug-induced episode.

Other students told investigators that he told them he had taken “edibles” the day of the assault.

The bodycam footage shows officers discussing a “juicy strawberry” vaping device that was taken from the student.

His attorney, Clyde Bennett, told reporters after the attack that his client wasn’t conscious of his actions at the time.

“This young man is not like the young men that are causing problems in the community,” Bennett told WLWT.

“This young man from a great family has no criminal record and basically consumed vape and didn’t know drugs was in it and it precipitated or facilitated his conduct thereafter. So he should not be treated like the other individuals you see on the news wreaking havoc on the community.”

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Ohio teen felt like he was ‘in a dream’ after beating 60-year-old teacher unconscious after hitting vape

Police said the 15-year-old assailant repeatedly punched the educator in the head after taking a hit from a vape in a school bathroom and ingesting an unknown drug.

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[DamagedGoods]

Call me skeptical of his acting.

 

[cubby]

So how is he different from any other drug taker acting out? Because he's from a "good family" and the others aren't? What matters to me is the condition of the teacher he nearly beat to death. That should be the only thing that matters.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

June 22, 2024A 16-year-old Colerain High School student will serve an indefinite sentence after assaulting his 60-year-old teacher, according to our media partners WCPO-9 TV.

On Friday, the student appeared in court. The judge said he would serve at least one year at a Department of Youth Services prison.

“I don’t think this is fair. I think he should be held, definitely until he’s 21 because my life has changed. I’m never going to get back what I had before,” teacher Sheri Wooldridge said after court.

Around 2:15 p.m. on January 4, the teen punched Wooldridge in the head multiple times, News Center 7 previously reported.

Wooldridge was hospitalized, and part of her skull cap was removed “in order to prevent brain damage due to swelling.”

Hamilton County prosecutors said she spent around 25 days in the hospital.

Following the assault, the teen was charged with felonious assault and held in the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center.

The student claimed that he began freaking out after using vaping in the school bathroom.

A toxicology report indicated that there were only minimal traces of THC in his system, not enough to be impaired, News Center 7 previously reported.

Teen to serve indefinite sentence for assault on Ohio high school teacher

The judge said he would serve at least one year at a Department of Youth Services prison.

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