Teacher gets probation after injuring student

BROWNSBORO — A Brownsboro elementary school teacher has pleaded guilty and received eight years of deferred adjudication probation after injuring a child in 2024. According to our news partner KETK, Kyle Lee Rocha, of Chandler, was arrested on Sept. 24, 2024, in connection with an incident that occurred earlier that month in a Chandler Elementary School behavioral classroom.

An affidavit describes the incident as captured on classroom footage, which showed Rocha picking up paperwork from the floor and placing the papers on the student’s desk, instructing the student to keep the pages on his desk. The student was reportedly seen throwing the paperwork into a clothes basket on his desk and tilting his desk several times as Rocha stood in front of him.

Footage reportedly showed the student rocking his desk backwards, tilting the front of the desk up. Rocha then allegedly “placed both of his hands onto the front of the desk and pushed the desk backwards, purposefully causing the desk to fall over” and the student to fall, hitting the back of his head and elbows against the desk behind him.

The elementary school student is then seen on video “holding both of his elbows close to his body, screaming and crying.”

Authorities received photographs that showed injuries to the child, including redness and a knot on the back of the student’s skull. Both elbows showed two small red marks or cuts with redness and bruising.

Rocha’s attorney, Matt Millslagle, confirmed with KETK News that he was sentenced on Monday to eight years of deferred adjudication probation. This is a type of probation that could erase the conviction from their record altogether if the defendant is successful in completing their probation requirements.