{"id":233939,"date":"2026-04-03T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:07:10","slug":"keller-teacher-charged-with-unlawfully-restraining-4-year-old-student-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233939\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller teacher charged with unlawfully restraining 4\u2011year\u2011old student, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/keller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Keller police<\/a> have charged a Shady Grove Elementary teacher with unlawfully restraining a 4\u2011year\u2011old student after investigators corroborated a parent&#8217;s report with statements from school staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teacher, Charissa Newport, faces a charge of unlawful restraint of a child younger than 17, according to the Keller Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>On March 3, a parent reported to Keller police that her 4\u2011year\u2011old autistic child was held down by a teacher for about 10 minutes during nap time on Feb. 9 at Shady Grove Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/newport.png#.png\" alt=\"newport.png \" height=\"590\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Charissa Newport \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Keller Police Department<\/p>\n<p>  Aide told principal what she saw<\/p>\n<p>A teacher&#8217;s aide later told the principal she witnessed Newport restraining the child, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Keller police obtained an arrest warrant for Newport on April 1. Newport was arrested at her Keller residence the same day, booked into the Keller Regional Detention Center, and later released on bond, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation remains active<\/p>\n<p>Police say the investigation remains active and are asking anyone with information to contact Det. Garrett at jgarrett@cityofkeller.com.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keller police have charged a Shady Grove Elementary teacher with unlawfully restraining a 4\u2011year\u2011old student after investigators corroborated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1234,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-233939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-keller","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}