A grand jury meeting in Mason County has indicted a school administrator who forcibly removed a student from a school bus.
The panel handed up the indicted Tuesday against former Point Pleasant Intermediate School Principal Cameron Moffett on charges of child abuse causing risk of injury.
Moffett, 46, was originally charged after a March 21, 2012 incident in which he removed then 11-year-old Zach Plants from the bus.
At a preliminary hearing in April 2012, witnesses testified Moffett came on the bus after a situation involving Plants and a few other students. When Plants did not move at Moffett’s request, he allegedly grabbed the boy out of the seat and moved him to the front of the bus. That’s when Plants sat down in a seat near the front and refused to get off the bus.
Plants eventually got off the bus and witnesses say Moffett held the boy to the ground. Most of the incident was caught on the school bus video.
Moffett is scheduled to be arraigned at nine o’clock Wednesday morning in Mason County Circuit Court.
The indictment came more than a year after the incident.