A Georgia mom is speaking out after her child got smacked at school, leaving the fourth-grader with visible marks and too scared to return.
Britney Walker, the mother of a student at Dutchtown Elementary in a suburb of Atlanta's Henry County, said her daughter Nevaeh and some other kids were hit in the back while leaving their classroom after asking a school assistant for laptop chargers. The employee's name hasn't been made public.
“She literally hit us in our backs, and we had two people that saw what happened,” Nevaeh explained. “Another teacher came to take us to the quiet room where we could write a statement of what happened.”
Four other students were also involved in this incident.
The principal contacted Walker on Tuesday, leading her to pick up her child from school. She was told that Nevaeh had been "physically assaulted," not sexually. “Immediately when I looked at her back,” Walker said, “Her back was red, and it looked like someone’s hand lines.”
Local news stations obtained photos that seem to show scratch marks on the child's back.
According to reports, the school employee has been put on administrative leave during an investigation by Henry County Schools. Walker filed a report at the local police station the following day, but she's seeking more accountability.
“It’s nowhere you can go and assault kids where you don’t go to jail. If I abuse my daughter, I’d be in jail. So why would she be different? She should not be able to ever work in a school system ever again,” Walker asserted.
In a separate case in Tennessee, a mother decided to withdraw her autistic daughter from school after accusing teachers of verbally mistreating her child.
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