Girl Sentenced for Bashing Teacher WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A high school girl got 2 1/2 to seven years in prison Tuesday for bashing her pregnant teacher in the head with a hammer. Jalise Salvatto, 16, attacked her social studies teacher Dawn Jawrower in a Yonkers classroom last April, hitting her twice with a carpenter's hammer. The teen-ager told police she was angry because Mrs. Jawrower had gone to her parents about her poor grades, causing her to miss the prom. Mrs. Jawrower, who suffered a fractured skull, said that she has almost fully recovered and that her baby, a boy now 3 months old, is fine. She has returned to teaching in another school. Miss Salvatto pleaded guilty to assault. ``I feel really bad for what I've done,'' she said, weeping. ``I felt worse when I found out you were pregnant. If I could take it back I would, in a second. ... I just want you to forgive me.'' Mrs. Jawrower told a judge that her son, Nicolas, is ``a constant reminder of what she did to me,'' added that Miss Salvatto ``needs to get help. ... She has a lot of potential and she needs to find it.'' The judge agreed, and ordered psychiatric counseling.
