{"id":590070,"date":"2026-02-14T19:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/590070\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:25:13","slug":"tamika-odeh-employee-at-parker-elementary-school-in-englewood-chicago-allegedly-put-child-in-chokehold-threw-him-to-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/590070\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamika Odeh, employee at Parker Elementary School in Englewood, Chicago, allegedly put child in chokehold, threw him to ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team \"WLS<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 14, 2026 6:21PM<\/p>\n

\"ABC7<\/p>\n

CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago Public Schools employee is facing charges after allegedly putting a child in a chokehold and throwing him to the ground, court documents show.<\/p>\n

The alleged incident happened on Nov. 13 at Parker Elementary School in the city’s Englewood neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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Tamika Odeh is accused of seriously injuring an 8-year-old student.<\/p>\n

She has been charged with Aggravated Battery to a Child.<\/p>\n

Odeh appeared in court on Wednesday. A judge denied the state’s request to detain Odeh but ordered her not to have contact with any children under 10.<\/p>\n

She is due back in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Saturday, February 14, 2026 6:21PM CHICAGO (WLS) — A Chicago Public Schools employee is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[255197,255196,960,5463,5461,5462,5460,75639,84224,5386,1818,255194,255195],"class_list":["post-590070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-255197","tag-aggravated-battery-to-a-child","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-breaking-news","tag-chicago-crime","tag-chicago-news","tag-chicago-violence","tag-cps-school","tag-englewood-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-parker-elementary-school","tag-tamika-odeh"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116070627868438424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}