Olivia Forrest

Name of Accused:
Forrest, Olivia Jewell

Date of Arrest:
10/25/2024


Charges For Arrest:
DISRUPTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SIMPLE BATTERY
Officer’s Narrative:
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On Friday, October 25, 2024
at approximately 0900 hours CAT J. T. JENKINS with the Gordon County Sheriff’s Office responded to 2505 Rome Road Plainville Georgia 30733 in regards to being advised by DEP E. A. OCHOA that there had been a report of a possible assault of a student by a substitute teacher.
Upon arrival CAPT JENKINS meet with [WITNESS ], Principal of Swain Elementary School. Mrs. [WITNESS ] advised that she was called to a class room being overseen by substitute teacher OLIVIA FORREST due to an issue with a student named juvenile [VICTIM ]. Mrs [WITNESS ] advised that she was trying to talk with the juvenile [VICTIM ], but he was upset and did not want to talk. Mrs. [WITNESS ] advised she looked into the class room that Ms. FORREST was in and saw another student named juvenile [VICTIM ] who appeared to be very upset. Mrs. [WITNESS ] advised that she called another staff member to take care of juvenile [VICTIM ] and another teacher to cover Ms. FORREST class and asked Ms. FORREST to come to her office to talk about what had taken place. Mrs. [WITNESS ] advised that she had [REDACTED] the school counselor come talk to juvenile [VICTIM ]. MRS. [WITNESS ] advised that when she got the front office she asked for the video cameras to be checked to see if anything had happened in the hallway.
After speaking to Mrs. FORREST, Mrs. [WITNESS ] advised that she watched the video and decided to law enforcement.
Upon arrival at Swain, CAPT JENKINS spoke briefly with Ms. FORREST and asked her if she would be willing to talk later at the sheriff’ office and she agreed and left Swain.
CAPT JENKINS was shown the video of the incident in the hallway. In the video Ms. FORREST is seen dragging juvenile [VICTIM ] into the hallway from the class room. During this dragging the feet of Ms. FORREST and juvenile [VICTIM ] get tangled up causing Ms. FORREST to stumble forward and drop juvenile [VICTIM ].
CAPT JENKINS met with Ms. FORREST at the sheriff’s office. After advising Ms. FORREST of her Miranda rights she voluntarily signed the Miranda form and spoke with CAPT JENKINS. At the conclusion of the interview CAPT JENKINS advised Ms. FORREST that she was being charged with simple battery and disruption of a public school. Ms. FORREST was escorted without incident to the Gordon County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center for processing.
CAPT JENKINS is filing request for forensic interviews which are pending.
The investigation continues.
[End of Narrative]