Former Fresno principal sentenced after caught shoving student in dramatic video

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A erstwhile Fresno Unified main is sentenced to probation aft a melodramatic shove caught connected camera.

Brian Vollhardt was lasting successful the cafeteria of Wolters Elementary School erstwhile a pupil approached astir 3 years ago. Seconds later, a shove sent the pupil flying.

"I look astatine the video implicit and implicit and implicit again," the boy's guardian, Ann Frank, said.

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The lad was conscionable 10 years aged with peculiar needs.

"I'm trying to fig retired what gave him the close to instrumentality and flip my kid crossed the country similar that," Frank said.

Vollhardt denied the kid maltreatment and endangerment complaint successful 2022.

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But successful May, Vollhardt changed his plea erstwhile prosecutors dismissed the charge, and helium pleaded nary contention to misdemeanor battery.

"I cognize that my absorption was not acceptable," Vollhardt said successful tribunal connected Wednesday. "It is my anticipation and supplication that 1 time I tin beryllium forgiven by the student's family..."

The justice sentenced Vollhardt to 1 twelvemonth connected probation, requiring 50 hours of assemblage work and counseling successful the Child Abusers' Program.

He indispensable wage a $550 good and enactment distant from the pupil for 3 years.

"I don't deliberation it's enough," Frank said. "I deliberation helium should person gotten a stiffer sentence."

"He should've went to jailhouse for what helium did," she said.

State records amusement Vollhardt has progressive credentials issued aft the incident, including 1 for administrative services and different for an acquisition specialist.

He is authorized to enactment with children connected the autism spectrum.

"He is nary longer teaching children," defence lawyer Roger Wilson said. "He's not going to beryllium successful the acquisition strategy forever."

The incidental inactive impacts the pupil and his guardian.

"I americium much alert astir erstwhile I nonstop him to school," Frank said. "I'm precise involved."

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