State v. Pittard

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant’s assignments of error are geared to the basic proposition that a relationship of teacher-student existed between defendant and Valerie and that defendant stood in loco parentis to Valerie while she was present at the center. Defendant argues that in such a relationship, the punishment she administered to Valerie was justified for corrective and disciplinary reasons. Defendant maintains that if she stood in loco parentis to Valerie or if there was a relationship of teacher-student, the jury could not find her guilty of assault unless it found either that the punishment…