DA: Former Fresno principal who shoved child changes plea

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A erstwhile main successful Fresno who was caught connected camera shoving a kid with peculiar needs changed his plea successful tribunal past week, according to the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.

The DA states erstwhile main of Wolters Elementary School, Brian Vollhardt, changed his plea to "no contest" connected charges of misdemeanor artillery and kid maltreatment from 2022.

According to the erstwhile Fresno Unified superintendent Bob Nelson, in June 2022, Vollhardt was moving with unit members to mitigate an upset pupil erstwhile Vollhardt aggressively shoved the pupil down. He was instantly enactment connected administrative permission erstwhile the concern came to light.

The tribunal appearances that followed revealed Vollhardt had further run-ins with the pupil with autism, including 1 lawsuit successful which the erstwhile main had pinned the pupil to the crushed with his genu connected his back. The justice astatine the clip ordered a restraining bid connected behalf of the student.

Since then, the tribunal ordered Vollhardt to enroll and implicit a 52-week kid maltreatment programme on with assemblage service. He volition beryllium officially sentenced connected July 16.