Florida Teacher Beaten And Hospitalized After Getting Attacked By Students Aged 4 And 5-Year Old

A disturbing incident was reported where a Florida teacher was hospitalized after allegedly being beaten by a couple of four- and five-year-old pupils in her classroom.

The youngsters who attend Pines Lakes Elementary in Pembroke Pines were said to have allegedly thrown objects and flipped chairs in the classroom before attacking the teacher using their fists and feet.

According to the police, the assault occurred in the 'cool down' room at the elementary school shortly after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Local 10 reported. 

The police reports further confirm that the officer who responded to the attack found the teacher sitting on the ground and feeling 'faint,' 'weak and dazed.' 

It is suggested that the five-year-old pupils faces the possibility of being charged with aggravated assault and battery with hands, fists and feet.

The officer who responded to the attack says that the teacher started coughing and dry heaving and by the time paramedics arrived at the school, the teacher was unresponsive. 

Fire Rescue personnel brought the teacher out of the classroom on a stretcher in order to take her Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. 

While other staff members tried to restore order, they heard the teacher in the room with the five-year-old.

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The police report further reveals that the woman 'advised on the school radio that she needed support.' 

Pembroke Pines police spokesperson Amanda Conwell told the Miami Herald 'no weapon or object was involved in the battery,' adding that 'the victim is conscious and cooperating with police.'

The incident is being treated as an 'active criminal investigation,' the newspaper stated.

According to WSVN, currently, there are no arrest reports mainly because of the ages of the children. 

In Florida, there is no statute specifying any minimum age for arrest, which means there is nothing legally preventing a preschooler, even two-and-a-half years old, from being arrested. 

Only last year, a House panel of Florida approved a proposed bill to establish a minimum arrest age of seven years old, but the bill failed to become law.

Reportedly, in the USA currently, twenty-two states have minimum arrest ages ranging from six years old in North Carolina to 12 years old in California and Michigan. 

And most states do not arrest or charge under the age of eight and children between the ages of 10 and 12 are not usually sent to jail except for rare cases involving major offenses.