COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A former Columbia teacher’s aide who inappropriately touched a young special needs student inside a middle school classroom has been sentenced to two years of probation.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that 61-year-old Thomas Harrell Edwards was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to a single count of misdemeanor fourth-degree assault.
Edwards, who joined Columbia Public Schools as a paraprofessional in September 2003 and later worked as a classroom aide at Oakland Middle School, was fired in early 2017.
