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29 March 2024

Teacher tells students to beat-up bully

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A former San Antonio teacher accused of directing students to hit a schoolmate for being a bully has been sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Cynthia Ambrose also was ordered Tuesday to serve two years' probation. She was convicted in June of official oppression, a misdemeanor.

Prosecutors say the 44-year-old former kindergarten teacher at Salinas Elementary School told her students in May 2012 to line up and hit the 6-year-old boy so he knows "how it feels to be bullied."

The San Antonio Express-News reports (https://bit.ly/1aoPkSt ) state District Judge Sid Harle said he wants to prevent Ambrose from teaching for two years, the maximum probation term allowed.

He is allowing her to serve the jail sentence on work release or to report to the Bexar (bayr) County Jail on weekends.


Man opens fire in restaurant: Kills 2, injures 5

A man opened fire in a restaurant in a small town in southwest Germany on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring five others before taking his own life, police said.

Heidelberg police said a meeting of property owners was taking place in the restaurant in the town of Dossenheim, and there had reportedly been an argument shortly before the shooting.

"The exact context, the motives and the sequence of events are for the moment still unclear," a police spokesman told the DPA news agency.

Police were alerted at 7:00 pm (1700 GMT) and there were about 20 people in the restaurant at the time of the shooting in the town of about 13,000 inhabitants.

According to the initial police investigation, the man had been excluded from the meeting held in the restaurant, but returned with a gun and shot dead two men before turning the weapon on himself.

The shots also wounded five other people, some seriously.

"The witnesses are traumatised and in shock," a representative of the Heidelberg prosecutor's office told AFP.

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