14-Year-Old Boy Put His Belt Around Teacher's Neck During Class, Teen Student Charged With Attempted Assault

A 14-year-old Washington state boy who put his belt around his teacher’s neck during class has been charged with attempted assault, police and prosecutors said.

The shocking episode unfolded at the Bethel High School in Spanaway on March 2.

According to the probable cause affidavit, the teen student came up behind his physical education teacher, threw his belt around her neck, and pulled her back.

The teacher said she grabbed the belt and swiftly turned to see her student standing behind her, the affidavit said.

When she asked him why he would do that to her, "all he said was sorry," she told investigators, according to the affidavit.

The petrified teacher ran to her office and called for help, the affidavit says.

She was "visibly shaken up with red eyes and still crying on and off," when Pierce County sheriff's deputies found her.

The teacher told deputies she didn’t feel any breathing limitations or obstruction in her airway. It is unclear if the teacher suffered any serious injuries, the NBC News reported.

The teen boy was arrested and charged with second-degree attempted assault and booked into Remann Hall, the county’s juvenile facility, Adam Faber of the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said.

"I was being dumb taking my belt and messing with the gym teacher by putting it over her head and pulling it back up," the student said in a statement to the police.

The student pleaded not guilty and was later released to his parents, Faber added. A pretrial conference is scheduled for March 16.

In another similar incident, a teacher at Pines Lakes Elementary school in Florida was reportedly hospitalized after she was attacked by a 5-year-old boy on Wednesday, March. 2.

It all began when two unruly students, ages 4 and 5, started throwing objects around their pre-kindergarten classroom and at their teachers before going on to flip over several chairs.

One of the teachers pulled the 5-year-old boy out of the classroom and took him into a smaller "cool down" room, where the child then attacked her, leaving her with severe injuries that reportedly needed surgery.

According to a police report, the teacher needed help getting up and was "clearly weak and dazed" as she began coughing and dry heaving. She was not able to vocally respond or show signs of response, the report added.

The teacher's injuries were so severe that she had to be intubated at the hospital.

The Pembroke Pines Police officials confirmed that the student will not be charged with the incident.