Video shows Stockton teacher dragging student
A Northern California P.E. teacher is charged with abusing a child after trying to force her into a swimming pool during class. The struggle was captured on camera by another student. The incident happened at Edison High in Stockton during P.E. class at the schools pool.
The video shows the teacher, Denny Peterson, trying to drag a 14-year-old girl into the pool back in August.
Stockton high school student talks about pool incident
The teen reportedly did not want to participate get in the pool because she just had her hair done that morning for an evening event.
Peterson was put on paid leave for a month, but then assigned to another Stockton school. He was charged with misdemeanor corporal injury to a child.
The family says they plan to file a lawsuit.
