A 46-year-old school teacher is in custody after allegedly putting a 5-year-old boy in a headlock at an Upper Manhattan elementary school on Monday, police and sources said.
The shocking incident at PS 153 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Elementary School took place shortly before 1:30 pm, sending the injured student to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the sources said.
The teacher, whose name is being withheld because he has not been charged, was taken into custody and was being questioned by cops at the 30th Precinct stationhouse on Monday evening.
It is not immediately known what sparked the alleged assault.
He is only the latest Big Apple educator to be accused of attacking a youngster in a public school.
In September, a coach at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School was charged with assault for allegedly slamming a 14-year-old student’s head into a stairwell wall.
Coach Nicholas Nugent allegedly flew into a rage when the victim dozed off during a video review.
In March 2023, a 33-year-old teacher at the David N. Dinkins School in Jamaica was arrested on assault charges for allegedly hitting an 8-year-old student.
