A teacher's aide at Tobinworld II, a school for developmentally disabled children, was arrested for assaulting a nine-year-old boy, according to reports.
The beating was captured by a video and was then posted on Facebook. The clips showed two school staff members holding the boy with his arms and legs and the school teacher's aide hit the boy hard in the face. The school's administrator reported the incident to the authorities, the CBS News reports.
The police officers arrived and interviewed the victim, a 9-year-old resident of Oakland, the staff members and other witnesses. According to reports, the victim did not have any visible injuries. However, the woman who was identified as Kamaljot Kaur, 26, a resident of Antioch, was still arrested for felony child abuse.
Tim Sickler, a Tobinworld parent told the CBS San Francisco station KPIX-TV that before he enrolled his child in the said school, he ensured that the school's staffs were equipped with CPI or the crisis prevention and intervention. It seemed that the training utilizes special holds rather than resorting to violence.
"They didn't do any of that. I'm a former instructor of CPI, and what they did that's thugs," he explained. "That's something that happens out of the street when you get jumped. So those aides not only need to be terminated, but they need to go to jail."
Tobinworld founder and executive director Judi Weber told KPIX-TV in a phone interview that she was "devastated" on what really happened and of course, by what she has seen. Hence, she confirmed that she has already suspended the involved personnel while the school administers its own rigid investigation.
Meanwhile, the Child Welfare Information Gateway stated the definition of child abuse and neglect in Federal Law -- defining it as:
- "Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitations," or,
- "An act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm."
