Sub allegedly chokes student during dodgeball game

[June 19, 2009]  NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) -- New York police say a substitute gym teacher put a 10-year-old student in a chokehold after the two got in an argument over a dodgeball game. The Daniel Webster Elementary School sub was charged Friday with third-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment.

Detective Thomas Leak said the 58-year-old sub apparently began calling the boy 'a big baby' and a 'crybaby' after they argued about a call in a dodgeball game.

Leak says the boy threw a punch at the sub but missed. He says the sub grabbed the boy by the back of the neck and dragged him across the gym floor. Leak says the sub put the boy in a chokehold when he tried to break free.

The boy was taken to a hospital with neck and back pain. The sub told police he acted in self-defense.

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