Judge accepts plea deal for Indiana teacher who slapped teen

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A choose on Thursday accepted a plea settlement calling for a suspended sentence for a retired northern Indiana instructor accused of grabbing a 15-year-old scholar and slapping him throughout the face.

Former Jimtown Excessive College sociology instructor Michael Hosinski entered a responsible plea to a misdemeanor cost of battery inflicting average damage in Elkhart Superior Court docket. The settlement requires a one-year jail time period to be suspended and served on probation.

Hosinski, 62, of Osceola, additionally will endure anger analysis and can’t have any contact with the sufferer.

Decide Teresa Cataldo set sentencing for July 14.

Hosinski, who was charged in March, confronted the coed a couple of hoodie the teenager was sporting. Safety digicam footage confirmed the 2 arguing in a hallway, Hosinski slapping the coed, and the coed’s head hitting a wall. The teenager was left with an abrasion to the within of his mouth and a lump on the again of his head, police stated.

The Baugo Neighborhood Faculties initially fired Hosinski, however the college board accredited his retirement shortly afterward. He had initially deliberate on retiring on the finish of the college yr.