Yonkers Girl Charged in Lincoln High Teacher Assault

YONKERS — On Thursday morning, a 17-year-old female student is accused of assaulting a 59- year-old female substitute teacher at Lincoln High School. 

Musharah Lewi of 150 Oak St. was in the hallway without a pass at 8:30 a.m., police said. The teacher told her to return to her class, and the girl is accused of throwing her cell phone at the teacher's feet and then punching her several times in the head, said Detective Sgt. Patrick McCormack, a Yonkers police spokesman. Officers called to the 375 Kneeland Ave. school arrested Lewi on a felony charge of second-degree assault.

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