Staff photo / Ed Runyan ... Geraldine DeWitt, left, speaks to Judge Renee DiSalvo of Youngstown Municipal Court during her sentencing hearing Thursday. Behind her is her attorney, Ron Yarwood, and Angela Miner, a court-security bailiff. YOUNGSTOWN — Former teacher Geraldine DeWitt, 62, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for assaulting a special needs student at McGuffey Elementary School in April 2019. Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Renee DiSalvo issued the sentence Thursday. DeWitt must report to jail March 4 unless she can provide a report from her doctor indicating a need for her jail time to be postponed until after she gets the COVID-19 vaccine. Her attorney, Ronald Yarwood, argued that because of DeWitt’s age, health and having not yet gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, going to jail now could “become something much more permanent than a jail sentence.”