Homestead daycare teacher behind bars after alleged child abuse towards 2-year-old
By Katherine Langford
CBS Miami

A Homestead teacher accused of shaking a 2-year-old student by the neck went to jail and lost her job Tuesday.Beatriz Gomez-Hurtado worked at Lincoln-Marti School and Childcare Center until Tuesday. School administrators fired Gomez-Hurtado after seeing video of the alleged attack in a classroom Monday morning.A 2-year-old boy in Gomez-Hurtado's class misbehaved, investigators said. She reprimanded the child, but he then laid on the ground and had a temper tantrum, according to arrest records.Gomez-Hurtado pulled the child up by the wrist, put both hands around his neck and face, and shook the 2-year-old back and forth before putting him in a time-out, arrest records said."That's her," said Nesha Evans, a parent whose son attended the school but was not the victim.Evans said her 3-year-old was afraid of Gomez-Hurtado. "Anytime he sees her, he'll scream," Evans said. "Anytime we get in front of the school, he'll scream. He'll just say no, no, the teacher. The security guards try to hold
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