{"id":41212,"date":"2025-09-22T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/sc-trooper-charged-in-childs-death-fired-teacher-assistant-sues-over-facebook-post\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T22:00:53","slug":"sc-trooper-charged-in-childs-death-fired-teacher-assistant-sues-over-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/sc-trooper-charged-in-childs-death-fired-teacher-assistant-sues-over-facebook-post\/","title":{"rendered":"SC Trooper Charged in Child\u2019s Death | Fired Teacher Assistant Sues Over Facebook Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZytJL-n4xQ?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A South Carolina state trooper has been charged in the death of a 4-year-old child in Oconee County. Authorities say Joshua Latimer and Destiny Dionne face two counts of unlawful neglect of a child. The child died in a Walhalla home Friday morning. Latimer was fired from the Department of Public Safety the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Also breaking \u2014 a former teacher assistant has filed a lawsuit against Spartanburg County School District 5, alleging she was wrongfully terminated after posting a quote from Charlie Kirk about the Second Amendment. The post led to her dismissal from River Ridge Elementary on September 15. She claims the firing violated her rights.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the video:<br \/>\n&#8211; A new boutique-style Goodwill store opens near the Swamp Rabbit Trail<br \/>\n&#8211; A fatal overnight shooting of a juvenile in Spartanburg<br \/>\n&#8211; Murder confession in a 3-year-old missing persons case<br \/>\n&#8211; Revolutionary War history comes to life at Clemson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Carolina state trooper has been charged in the death of a 4-year-old child in Oconee County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}