A Texas teacher, Melody LaPointe, and her two assistants, Tarah Tinney and Augusta Costlow, were charged with endangering a child due to an incident in April 2021

A Texas teacher and her two assistants were charged with endangering a child due to an incident in April 2021.

Melody LaPointe,47, Tarah Tinney,33, and Augusta Costlow,27, were accused of putting a five-year-old male student with special needs in an isolation room at a Liberty Independent School District building. As reported by FOX 26 Houston, the three women allegedly deprived him of food which forced him to eat his feces and drink his urine.

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Amid the accusations, Tinney and Costlow resigned but LaPointe worked for another school district. After the charges were filed, the school district placed LaPointe on leave. A district spokesman said they have contacted authorities regarding the incident and reported their actions to the State Board for Educator Certification.