A New York City teacher has been arrested for biting one of her students, police say.
Shayonne Johnson, 37, bit the girl while at a school in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, according to police.
The five-year-old was not taken to a hospital, police said.
Johnson is a substitute teacher with the city's Department of Education. She worked at K771, which is located inside PS 66, for two to three weeks.
She faces charges of assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
It wasn’t immediately known if she had an attorney.
In a statement the Department of Education said, "There is no place for this alleged behavior in our schools, and Ms. Johnson was immediately terminated."
