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SEE IT: Videos show teen brutally attacked by Christian boarding school workers — leading to assault, battery convictions
BY NINA GOLGOWSKI
Friday, October 10, 2014
As a 14-year-old boy was viciously pummeled to the ground at a Christian boarding school surrounding witnesses not only turned the other cheek but their eyes as well.
Newly released video from Virginia’s Abundant Life Academy in Milford reveals two such brutal scenes which led to the convictions of four former workers who took a plea deal for misdemeanor assault and battery Thursday, WTVR reported.
The three life coaches and a program instructor — identified as Liam Galligan, 44, Jovany Rivera, 22, Timothy Jordan, 26, and William Honea, 49 — had been charged with assault by mob and assault after the video shot in April surfaced.
In one scene the boy is seen being tackled in the academy’s sanctuary hall while in another he’s flipped on his back from behind while standing in the cafeteria.
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