Legacy Christian Academy: Saskatchewan educator has assault charge dropped [Video]

A private school employee accused of hitting a seven-year-old student in the head with a relay baton had her assault charge dropped on Wednesday after participating in alternative measures.

Forty-four-year-old Terra Macewan was charged with assault with a weapon in September after a parent reported to police that Macewan hit her son on the head with a baton at Legacy Christian Academy, a private school at the centre of a flurry of abuse allegations.

When the new charges came to light, the victims’ mother told CTV News her second-grade son, who has autism, had a goose egg on his head as a result of the incident and was fearful of returning to school.

The mother pulled him out of the school, declining a meeting with the principal. Instead, she filed a report with the Saskatoon police, who launched an investigation in June. Macewan turned herself in to face charges on Sept. 16.

On Wednesday …