Five Barnegat Township School District employees have been fired and a department head was reassigned in the wake of recent allegations that an 8-year-old nonverbal autistic girl was taped to a chair in a Russell Brackman Middle School classroom.

At a special meeting April 9, the board of education voted to dismiss the five employees, whose names were not disclosed in the resolution. District Superintendent Brian Latwis said one was a teacher and the others were paraprofessionals.