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(NewsNation) — An attack in Las Vegas highlights a significant problem in schools, which has a growing number of educators leaving the profession.
In an exclusive and graphic video from last spring obtained by NewsNation local affiliate KLAS, a then-16-year-old student is seen roaming an Eldorado High School hallway before violently attacking a teacher.
Jonathan Martinez Garcia is now serving a 16-40-year prison sentence after a swift conviction for choking, beating and sexually assaulting the teacher inside a classroom for nearly 90 minutes.
The victim testified at sentencing that the attack continues to haunt her every night.
“I would wake up in a new spot and position each time knowing that he had just dragged my limp, near-lifeless body into a different part of the classroom to do whatever he so chose to do with my body as I lay unconscious,” the woman said. “He beat my body so badly that I could no longer fight.”
Police arrested Martinez Garcia on the day of the assault, after which he had changed into his ROTC uniform.
The Las Vegas attack joins a long list of other incidents, including a case in Florida, where a teacher was beaten unconscious by a student over confiscation of a game console.
In other cases, teachers have suffered injuries and concussions — often while trying to intervene between students fighting with each other.
In Las Vegas, the Clark County School District has added $26 million in new security measures with additional cameras, fencing and an instant-alert system for teachers.
