Shafeeq Sayid Shamsid-Deen was a principle at Laurel Oaks Charter School in Baton Rouge, LA. ^[0]

On August 22, 2017 Shamsid-Deen locked a five year old student inside a broom closet in the cafeteria at Laurel Oaks Charter School ^[0].

Three teachers found the little girl after hearing her screams and tracking her to the closet, which was filled with spiders and roaches, and where she was locked in from the outside.

^[1]The child told police that Shamsid-Deen had earlier told her to “go into the closet with the spiders,” and warned that he would turn the lights off if she screamed.

She said she was trapped inside the foul-smelling closet for an unspecified amount of time as “spiders and roaches” crawled on her.

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Shamsid-Deen, has been suspended from Laurel Oaks Charter School and is expected to be arrested on charges of cruelty to a juvenile — a felony — and false imprisonment for locking the young student in the closet.

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