Retired Indiana teacher gets probation for slapping student

GOSHEN, Ind. — A retired Indiana instructor who admitted to grabbing a 15-year-old pupil and slapping him throughout the face in a college hallway was sentenced Thursday to at least one yr of probation.

An Elkhart County decide sentenced Michael Hosinski to at least one yr in jail, with the sentence suspended to at least one yr of probation. Hosinski, 62, pleaded responsible in June to a misdemeanor cost of battery inflicting reasonable harm.

As a part of his sentence, the Osceola, Indiana, man should bear anger analysis and can’t have any contact with the coed.

Hosinski was a Jimtown Excessive College sociology instructor when he confronted the coed in February a few hoodie the teenager was sporting. Safety digital camera footage confirmed the 2 arguing, with Hosinski slapping the coed, and the coed’s head hitting a wall.

Hosinksi was charged in March for the slap, which police mentioned left the teenager with an abrasion to the within of his mouth and a lump on the again of his head.

Hosinski was initially fired by the Baugo Neighborhood Colleges, however the college board authorised his retirement shortly afterward. Hosinski had initially deliberate on retiring on the finish of the college yr.