Bronx Middle School Teacher Fined After Showing ISIS Beheading Video In Class
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A New York City middle school teacher has been fined $300 for showing students a video of an Islamic State beheading.
Alexiss Nazario showed the video to students at the South Bronx Academy for Applied Media during the 2014-2015 school year.
Students told investigators the video blacked out the actual beheading. But they said it showed the victim's severed head afterward. The New York Post reports Nazario initially tried to blame the viewing on the students, saying one of the kids searched for the video on a computer attached to a classroom overhead.
Nazario later told the Post she accidentally played the wrong video in class.
The students testified that the video blacked out the actual beheading but showed its gruesome aftermath: the man's severed head placed on top of his own chest.
According to the Post, three eight-graders told investigators they were "freaked out" by the footage.
City Department of Education officials tried to fire Nazario, but an arbitrator ruled in favor of the lighter penalty of a $300 fine.
Officials tell the Post that Nazario now works as a roving substitute teacher.
There was no answer Saturday at a phone number listed for Nazario.
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