Former Norwalk Teacher From Chokehold Case Can Teach Again: Report

NORWALK, CT — Stefanie Sanabria, a former Norwalk elementary school teacher, can work again as a teacher, after a Superior Court judge this week granted her permission to do so, The Hour reported.

Sanabria, a Danbury resident, was fired from her Brookside Elementary School job last year, after she was accused of demonstrating a martial arts chokehold on a student, which led to the student passing out.

She was arrested on charges of second-degree strangulation, risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment, but was reportedly granted accelerated rehabilitation last year. The special probationary program will wipe away the charges upon its successful completion.

As a condition of the two-year AR program, Sanabria was not permitted to teach, but Judge Bruce Hudock granted her permission to pursue a teaching opportunity in New York.

Read The Hour story.