After widespread circulation of a video on social media showing a student slapping his teacher in North Carolina last month, prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the teenager as an adult. The video showed the teacher restrained in her seat while the teenager spoke to her and delivered the blows, as she tried to maintain her composure despite the slaps. The footage revealed the student threateningly asking her, "Do you want me to hit you again?" to which the teacher responded, "I don’t want that."
However, the student suddenly struck her again from the right side, causing her glasses to fall off. Prosecutors stated that the student faced criminal charges for allegedly attacking two separate teachers at the school, according to the New York Post. Aquavis Hickman, the 17-year-old student from Parkland High School in Winston-Salem, was indicted on assault and kidnapping charges last week. He was charged as an adult in two separate horrific attacks, including the aforementioned assault on April 15, during which he slapped his teacher twice.
In the first incident, he was charged with second-degree kidnapping and a misdemeanor for a February 1 attack on a teacher at his school, although prosecutors said he did not act alone. Last month, prosecutors noted that the disruptive teenager approached the teacher and hit her twice, with the attack being captured on video that later went viral, even though the police did not release the footage. The case against the teenager was transferred from juvenile court to superior court last week, where a grand jury voted to indict him. Meanwhile, school district officials declined to comment on the case or Hickman's arrest.
