March 31, 2008 - Brian Havel, 22, a Delta High School teacher, was charged with child abuse for an incident in the classroom where he allegedly gave his students permission to beat a classmate who was late for class.
"In his class, the disciplinary process was X amount of sit-ups or push-ups in a certain amount of time. He either wouldn't or couldn't complete them," Delta interim Police Chief Roger Christian said of the punished student.Havel is due in court April 30.
The boy's classmates volunteered to administer an alternate punishment.
"The class made a suggestion that if he couldn't finish, we ought to be able to punch him, and (Havel) agreed. So 10 to 15 students got to hit him," Christian said.
Police: Teacher told students to hit tardy classmate (dated March 26, 2008)
GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING June 24, 2008 - Havel pleaded guilty to harassment and has been sentenced to 364 days unsupervised probation. He will lose his license for two years.
Havel has moved back to his home state of Minnesota.
