{"id":422599,"date":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422599\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:20:11","slug":"jacksonville-preschool-teacher-arrested-on-child-abuse-charge-after-police-say-she-dragged-a-child-by-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/422599\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville preschool teacher arrested on child abuse charge after police say she dragged a child by ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville preschool teacher was arrested on a felony child abuse charge, months after authorities said she dragged a young child by the ear inside a local school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Cheyenne Alyssa Eigner, 28, was taken into custody Oct. 1, according to a Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officers arrested her on an active warrant after an incident that happened on May 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The report has the incident location listed as 9039 Beach Boulevard, which is Cornerstone Christian School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JSO investigators reviewed surveillance footage from the school and said the video showed Eigner grabbing a child by the ear and dragging her from one side of a desk to the other, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The child immediately clutched her ear once Eigner let go, the report stated. The child appeared to be in pain but sustained no lasting injury, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Eigner faces one count of child abuse, a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Jacksonville preschool teacher was arrested on a felony child abuse charge, months after authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[265,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-422599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-crime","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}