New York’s NBC affiliate is reporting that a four month pregnant teacher at Exploration Academy in the Bronx suffered a miscarriage as a result of attempting to break up a fight between two students in her classroom:
Lissedia Batista, 27, was elbowed in the stomach, pushed, and fell to the floor as she tried to get in the middle of a fight between two students. The fight happened in a Spanish class in Exploration Academy.
Batista was four months pregnant and was taken by ambulance to North Centeral Bronx Hospital, where she miscarried her baby.
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Both students were suspended and it begs to question if the United Federation of Teachers will consider Ms. Batista’s miscarriage a murder or if the students should be charged with manslaughter, since the Exploration Academy teacher likely lost her baby has a result of being assaulted. The UFT’s spokesman Dick Riley told me through an e-mail this afternoon that the UFT would “have no comment until the investigation is complete.”
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