Assistant Principal In Slapboxing Case Seeks Charge Resolution

NORWICH, CT—Montville High School assistant principal Tatiana Patten has been on paid administrative leave for 18 months. Monday, she asked a Superior Court judge to allow her to enter a diversion program of "accelerated rehabilitation." The diversion program could mean charges against her could eventually be dismissed in the 2017 slapboxing case, The Day reported. Court records on the case are sealed.

Patten, 60, was charged with a misdemeanor as a part of her role, as a state-mandated reporter, to alert child welfare officials that a substitute teacher was running "classroom slapboxing matches in October 2017," the paper reported.

She and two other school administrators were "charged with failing to report suspected abuse" to the state Department of Children and Families once they found out about the fights being supervised by a sub.

Patten will learn if a judge has approved the request when she's back in court on Sept. 9. The day reported that she "eventually would be able to get the charges fully dismissed if she complied with court-set conditions and incurred no further charges."

Read the full story from The Day here.