A teacher of Cocoa Beach, arrested in January in connection with a teenage alcohol party held at the director’s home, is now facing a third charge, resisting an officer without violence.
Carly Anderson, a former teacher at Roosevelt Primary School, was officially accused by the State Prosecutor’s Office at the end of March with one census of a violation of behavior and a number of violations. In January, she was arrested on charges of neglecting children and contributing to the crime of a minor.
The court document, filed on April 22 by prosecutors, added the additional charge of resistance against an employee without violence.
“(Anderson) illegally resisted, obstructed or opposed Demetrius Brown, an employee of the police station in Cocoa, while such an employee was in the implementation of a legal process or in the legitimate fulfillment of a legal obligation without offering or violence to the face of such an employee,” prosecutors wrote.
A small group of people holding signs congratulated parents and students when they arrived at Saturn Primary School on April 15. They protested against the hiring of the school of Carly Anderson, the teacher participating in the Cocoa Party on January 19th.
Anderson went into requests not to blame for all points on April 23. On the same day, her lawyer Kenneth Weaver applied for the rejection of the three accusations, stating that the body of the body camera – who showed that Anderson admits he was drinking the party and shouting the perceptions of Brown – are accurate, but Anderson’s actions “do not support all three accusations as a question.”
Judge Kimberly Musselman has ordered the case to remain as determined earlier, with the court process of jurors will begin on May 5.
Time line: Anderson was arrested, placed back in the classroom, released leave again
Both Anderson and Elizabeth Hill-Brodigan, the then principal of Roosevelt Primary School, were arrested in January after more than 100 teenagers attended the Hil-Brodigan home, according to a police report. In interviews held after the party, students told police that the party included minor drinking, use of marijuana and battles between teens, as a teenager brought a gun. A student seen in the footage of Cocoa Beach’s police body was found to have a medical episode associated with alcohol, on the front lawn of a Hill Brodigan, and another was accused of driving under influence when he left the party. Students also said that such parties are regularly held at the Hill Brodigan House.
Both women attended the home, according to court records, and the public schools in Brevard put them both on paid administrative leave immediately after the incident. The Hil-Brodigan Opi was switched to unpaid leave in April after the State Prosecutor’s Office officially accused her of a census of neglect of children, five to contribute to the crime of a minor and one piece for holding an open house. In Florida, neglecting children is a crime.
Anderson, who was officially accused of crimes and without crimes, was allowed to return to teaching, this time at the Saturn Primary School in Cocoa, igniting public protest by local parents. However, she was withdrawn from the classroom in two days and again settled on paid administrative leave, with the deputy chairman of the school board Matt Sun said the area had not seen a body camera before showing her shouts.
“To be honest with you that (footage) was not provided to us before yesterday afternoon and we accept the fact that we will conduct the investigation,” he told a press conference on April 15. “This is a deplorable action; the whole thing is not acceptable to BPS standards.”
Sun added that the area would investigate whether Anderson was involved in the party, something that Weaver was challenging, saying today to Florida that she and Hill-Brodigan were at dinner when police called to warn a Hill-Brodigan at the home.
“I know for sure that Mrs. Anderson did not supply alcohol to minors, did not drink with them, did not go to any party, had nothing to do with it,” Weaver said. “She was just there and the police made all kinds of assumptions.”
No Hill-Brosigan test date has been set.
Finch Walker is the Florida Education Reporter today. Contact Walker at fwalker@floridatoday.com. X: @_finchwalker.
This article originally appeared in Florida today: A third accusation raised against the cocoa teacher