Texas substitute teacher is fired for washing girl with Down syndrome's mouth out using SOAP after accusing 13 year-old of cursing at her

A substitute teacher has been fired for washing out the mouth of a girl with Down syndrome, accusing the 13-year-old of cursing at her.

The incident occurred on Tuesday at the Cambridge School in Texas, a school that caters to students with special needs.

LaShae Celestine, the mother of the 13-year-old Harmony, who has Down syndrome and a speech impediment, said that the teacher demanded Harmoney to wash her mouth and placed a paper towel full of soap into her mouth.

The heartbroken mother, who reviewed surveillance camera footage capturing the incident, has filed reports with child protective services and Humble Independent School District Police.

As of Friday morning, the teacher has not been identified or charged. DailyMail.com has reached out to the Humble ISD police for further information.

You can't unsee that video. Like, you really assaulted my baby by putting soap in her mouth,' Celestine told ABC13, recalling the traumatic incident that happened to her child.

Celestine said she received an email from the Cambridge School Director Leslie Johnson on Tuesday afternoon.

Harmoney was working with the substitute teacher shortly before 10am that day, according to the email.

But Celestine said her daughter's speaking ability is limited and was simply asking a question.

'[Harmony] said, 'What you doing?' And she has a speech impediment because she (has) Down syndrome.

If the child can not learn, why waste tax payer money to send them to school. I stand by my statement (of questions).

What a shallow and ungrateful statement about another human being. You are fortunate to have your faculties yet you have no compassion for those who have severe challenges and roadblocks for their entire lives. Insulting another innocent individual is one thing but to speak so revolting about someone who is disabled is repulsive an illustrates a true lack of intelligence. One day you may find yourself in a simular situation to someone who is disabled and then and only then will you realize how your ungrateful attitude oozed such an asinine tone. You better hope and pray others do not harbor your current attitude when you need them the most.

Emotional Blathering... Again I stand by my statement of questions... If the child (not really a child at that age) is disrupting the classroom and teaching other kids that cursing the teacher is appropriate, then perhaps if a mouth soaping doesn’t work, they should be thrown out of school for the parents to deal with.

Don’t like it, tough. A school room that is allowed to be constantly turned into disarray does the rest of the children harm that are there to learn. If the “classroom” is full of special needs children, some will be able to learn and others not so much... The “not so much” group is basically a daycare for the parents... but still if the children are able to learn profanity they probable able to know/learn respect... Even our babies knew after the first gentle slap not to bite the nipple of their mother.

Sorry if you think enabling bad behavior should be the norm... actually not sorry, not even remotely... you whinny privileged jerk. I am sorry you are dealing with a special needs child, but you don’t get to dictate how others are to tiptoe around subjects that involve other children just because your special child is pampered to do whatever they want. I understand fully loving such children, we have quite a few in our church that behave like Angels (you just have to hug them they are so precious)... but you don’t reward bad behavior. Yes, that is one of the few things 99.9% of the time can be instilled into special needs children. It is the foundation on which to build upon... There is a hierarchy in which respect of the teacher is essential.

Don’t like, blow another gasket and see if I care.

Are you sure you’re not a liberal? You would have the person cursing set up as the teacher of the classroom, because that is what they are doing, teaching the rest of the class that it is ok to disrespect the teacher/classroom. Segregation is your term (that liberals like to use), the rest of us understand it for what it is, cutting the rotten from potato instead of leaving it to fester/rot the rest of the fruit/classroom. Barney Fife called it “nip it in the bud”.

If parents are teaching their child at home that they rule the roost, then that child will bring that to the classroom if they can. The disease will spread like cancer, one can not have that behavior in a classroom (and still have it called a “classroom”). A teacher that cares for the future of such children will not ignore bad behavior, probable because the child has never seen someone that cared for it in it’s life, someone that actually cares for their future (and the rest of the classroom they teach).

A mother that loves their child will correct it from playing in the street, a mother that doesn’t will not.... One cares, the other doesn’t. Same goes for a teacher. One takes more effort, the other doesn’t. Can you distinguish?

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