Crime & Safety
Norwalk Teacher Charged After Putting Student In Chokehold: Police
The Brookside Elementary School math teacher was charged with strangulation and reckless endangerment, police said.
NORWALK, CT — A Norwalk elementary school teacher is facing multiple charges after police said she placed a student in a chokehold until they were unconscious.
Stefanie Sanabria, 50, of Danbury is charged with second-degree strangulation, risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment following the Feb. 24 incident, Norwalk police said in a news release.
According to police, Sanabria — who works as a math coach at the school — was demonstrating a martial arts chokehold on three fifth-grade students when one of the students lost consciousness as a result of the hold.
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The school nurse immediately treated the student, according to police.
Following an investigation by the Norwalk Police Department Special Victims Unit, Sanabria was arrested at her Danbury home on Friday, police said. She is being held on a $20,000 bond.
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The investigation is ongoing.
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