MADISON -- Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced Tuesday, March 5 the case involving an incident at Whitehorse Middle School in Madison will not move forward, according to our partners at WMTV.
“In this case, I do not believe a crime was committed," said Ozanne.
On Feb. 13, according to WMTV, a teacher at Whitehorse Middle School was accused of pushing an 11-year-old girl who is African-American down -- ripping out her braids.
Mikiea Price, the girl’s mother, spoke with WMTV about the incident Tuesday morning -- calling for the arrest of the teacher under investigation. Price said she saw video from inside the school, which she said showed the teacher physically assaulting her daughter. She said she felt as though officials with every department that was a part of this investigation told her some other agency failed.
Price's pastor spoke with her at the press conference. He called what happened after the incident failure all the way around, and said she was slapped in the face by the system, saying school officials failed to call police and Child Protective Services afterwards.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval issued this statement:
Madison Metropolitan School District officials released a statement on Tuesday morning:
Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham of the Madison Metropolitan School District addressed the incident as well as others that have happened this school year in a letter to the community. In that letter, she said that the incident at Whitehorse was quote "especially horrific" and said there was failure on part of the district regardless of what came out of the police investigation.