Lakeside Christian Academy Headmaster, John Raymond, has been arrested again with another count of child cruelty.
As Slidell Police confirm, Raymond was arrested again after another student came forward with allegations of cruelty.
Raymond, 60, was first arrested in April after allegedly taping three students’ mouths shut back in March after the students were accused of talking too much in class according to news sources.
Following his arrest, more allegations came out of other forms of cruelty dating far back as 2017.
A Slidell Police report says, “One incident involved a Pre-K student, who would occasionally have “tantrums”. During the tantrums, the young 4-year-old boy would sit on the ground and kick and scream. Due to the boy crying and screaming, Raymond allegedly placed his hand over the boy’s nose and mouth (preventing him from breathing) to the point of him going “limp”. A staff member told Raymond to stop, and then observed the boy “out of it and lethargic”, “unable to stand”, and saw “mucous” come out of the boy’s nose, as he attempted to breathe. In another incident, the same boy was allegedly “dragged by his ankles” across a floor, after he refused to leave with Raymond. In another incident, Raymond allegedly held the boy upside down by his ankles and repeatedly “whipped him on the buttocks.”
Raymond was booked into the Slidell City Jail and will be transported to the St. Tammany Parish Jail where a bond will be set.
The investigation involving Raymond is still ongoing, as detectives are interviewing additional witnesses linked to other allegations against Raymond according to authorities.
