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Published on May 8, 2025 at 12:10 pm
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A kindergarten teacher was arrested Tuesday after an incident in a classroom at the IDEA River Bluff School in Arlington, police say.
Terri Baldwin, 39, was jailed on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, plus five counts of child abuse without great bodily harm, according to her arrest report. She remains in jail without bail, records show.
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The arrest report indicates that Baldwin was “stressed out” when someone listed as Victim 1 did not listen to her. She took that person into a bathroom, and the victim was more upset when leaving the bathroom, the report said.
What happened in the bathroom was blacked out — or redacted — from the report. A witnesses said some time later, “the suspect yelled at victim 1 for lying,” the report said.
The report lists five victims, but details of what may have happened are also blacked out. The report does say that a witness said Victim 4 “was not following the suspect’s directions,” so something was done. Again, the action was redacted.
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An unidentified mother told News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner, that her son suffered a head injury after he was held upside down by his ankles. She said she learned about it from another teacher who saw what happened.
The charter school sent a letter to parents about Baldwin’s arrest, saying she is no longer employed at the school.
The arrest was one of two in the past week involving a teacher accused of child abuse, according to police reports.
On April 30, a teacher at Baymeadows Christian Academy & Preschool was booked on one charge of child abuse without great bodily harm. Cyrina Agnes Hogan, 58, bailed out of jail Saturday, jail records show.
Hogan’s arrest report is also heavily redacted, but it states that a victim was injured and crying when taken to the school office. When Hogan was questioned by school officials, her story “was jumbled and did not seem to follow any sort of linear timeline,” the arrest report said.
“She appeared quickly confused when asked to specify events she had just stated happened,” the report said.
School officials wrote home to parents, stating that Hogan would not be returning to school, according to First Coast News.
