YOUNGSTOWN — The sentencing date for former Youngstown teacher Geraldine DeWitt, 62, has been reset to 9 a.m. Feb. 18 after being postponed Tuesday.

DeWitt pleaded guilty last week in Youngstown Municipal Court to negligent assault, a third-degree misdemeanor, for an assault on a student at McGuffey Elementary School last April.

Youngstown prosecutors are recommending that she be sentenced to one year of probation, fined $100 and ordered to have no contact with the victim, a boy she taught in Youngstown City Schools as a special education teacher.

She surrendered her teaching license, and the Ohio Department of Education has ordered that her license be permanently revoked.

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