A former Montgomery County teacher has been acquitted of child abuse, the second time the instructor has been found not guilty of mistreating students in her class. A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury in Rockville on Thursday found 36-year-old Susan Burke not guilty of choking and scratching two of her kindergarten students. The incidents happened during the 2009-2010 school year at Greencastle Elementary School.

In October, Burke was acquitted of 10 counts of second-degree assault after a jury determined she didn’t choke her students at Greencastle during the following school year, when she taught first grade at the Silver Spring school.