HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Newly-released video shows a teacher at a Homestead religious school taping a student’s mouth shut, leading to his arrest, authorities say.
Police took Michael Alvarez, a teacher at First United Methodist Christian School, located at 622 N. Krome Ave., into custody on a battery charge on Monday.
Investigators said Alvarez, 34, took the boy into the hallway and put painter’s tape over his lips after he laughed in class during a Bible reading.
The boy’s parents said the 13-year-old never gave Alvarez permission to put tape over his mouth.
He bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Tuesday afternoon.
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