LONGVIEW, Texas — Scott Novy was conflicted Monday when he addressed a former Longview ISD special education teacher who pleaded guilty in his courtroom to multiple charges of injuring special education students.
Novy, the 188th District Court judge, had listened for several hours as parents testified about how their children were affected and watched videos that showed Cecilia Gregg terrorizing students — nonverbal with autism — in a J.L. Everhart Elementary School classroom.
Video showed her dragging a child across the floor, hitting a child repeatedly on the head and forcing another's head down onto a table when he wouldn’t color something while yelling, “Do you know how to do anything?”
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