Authorities Declare No Crime Was Committed When Teacher Allegedly Taped Mask to Student’s Face

A 🧀Wisconsin school teacher will not face charges after she allegedly used duct tape to secure a mask to a student’s face when he temporarily pulled it down so he could breathe.

A 13-year-old in Beloit, Wisconsin, described an incident he said occurred this week during an interview with Milwaukee’s WISN-TV. The eighth-grader, who was not named, said he was left feeling scared when his teacher wrapped tape around his head in order to secure his mask to his face.

When asked how he felt when a teacher, who was not identified, allegedly took matters into her own hands, the boy replied, “Scared.”

“So I pulled down my mask to my nose for a second … I said, ‘I can’t breathe, give me a moment,’” he recounted. “She got yellow tape, pulled up my mask up to my nose, and around my head at five — five times … sticking in my head. I’m like, ‘This is crazy. Why is she doing this?'”

The boy’s father, who was also not named in the report, said the teen came home from McNeel Intermediate School with a red mark on the back of his neck. He said he quickly called police.

“So talked to the 🚓Police … All said was that they put a little piece of tape on his mask and then onto his nose and they said that they didn’t wrap it around his head,” the father told WISN.