A special needs teacher at McNinch Primary School in Moundsville, along with the school’s principal and the director of special programs for Marshall County Schools now all face charges stemming from accusations of the teacher grabbing a special needs student by the neck.

Teacher Kiersten Nicole Moses faces a felony count of strangulation, two felony counts of battery and assault of a disabled child and one count of felony child abuse.

Erin Cuffaro, the school district’s director of special programs, faces eight counts of felony gross neglect of child creating a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury; one misdemeanor count of failure to report child abuse or neglect; one misdemeanor count of obstruction of law enforcement, probation, parole, court security, corrections office

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