Teacher accused of taping student to chair with duct tape for being ‘disruptive and not listening’

LEXINGTON, S.C. — A teacher’s aide from South Carolina is behind bars after investigators said she duct-taped a student to a chair for not listening.

Deputies said Olivia Murray, 25, worked at Seven Oaks Elementary School and “used duct tape to tape the student’s legs to a chair Wednesday while the teacher was out of the classroom,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said in a post on the sheriff’s department’s Facebook page.

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“Murray told detectives the student had been moved to the back of the classroom for being disruptive and not listening,” Koon said.

Murray was arrested at her home on Wednesday and is being charged with cruelty to children.

She is currently being held in the Lexington County Detention Center.

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