Sutter Creek Elementary Father Charged With Battery On School Employee After Dispute Over Mask Mandate

SUTTER CREEK (CBS13) – A antheral is facing transgression charges for his alleged onslaught connected an Amador County teacher earlier this month.

Jason Wages, 49, has been charged with misdemeanor violations of artillery connected a schoolhouse employee, disruptive beingness astatine a school, and disturbing the bid by violative language, the Amador County District Attorney announced connected Monday.

The charges stem from a combat that happened connected August 11, the archetypal time of schoolhouse astatine Sutter Creek Elementary. During pupil pick-up aft school, Wages reportedly confronted unit astir their kid having to deterioration a mask. Wages past verbally assaulted the principal, and erstwhile a antheral teacher reportedly stepped in, helium allegedly physically attacked the teacher, causing injuries that required aesculapian treatment. The teacher was treated astatine the infirmary and released aboriginal that day.

Prior to the charges being filed, Wages had already been banned from the campus, according to EdSource.

CBS13 Staff