A South Carolina “Teacher of the Year” award recipient is now facing charges after she allegedly tried to run over her child’s father in a Walmart parking area.
Sade Delesia Nacheyle Nelson, the 2025 “Teacher of the Year” at St. John’s High School in Charleston, South Carolina, is accused of attacking her child’s father and his girlfriend during what was supposed to be a custody exchange on Oct. 18, local Summerville police stated, according to Live5News reports.
Nelson, age 37, is accused of punching both the man and his girlfriend before then trying to strike the man with her vehicle.
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Reportedly, surveillance video captured Nelson accelerating her car toward the child’s father, who was forced to jump out of the path of the oncoming vehicle to avoid being hit.
According to an incident report, Nelson is facing charges that include third-degree assault and battery, domestic violence of a highly aggravated nature, unlawfully putting a child at risk of harm or willfully abandoning a child.
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According to the Daily Mail, police records indicate that the man informed officers that he opened the passenger side door of Nelson’s vehicle to retrieve his son when she allegedly started to punch him multiple times.
He reported that he stumbled away from the vehicle as he tried to get away from the punches.
Nelson reportedly told police that the man attacked both her and their son after he opened the vehicle door.
The Charleston County School District has stated that Nelson has been put on administrative leave while the investigation proceeds.
