School officials paddle 5-year-old, threaten mom
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The mother was told she’d go to jail if she intervened.
The mother told the TV station that she was threatened with jail if she intervened. Jasper County School District officials released a statement saying they are aware of the video but could not comment. The child had missed 18 days due to medical issues and the mother was already facing truancy charges. “I felt like I was helpless to do anything,” the mother said.
The mother, Shana Marie Perez, posted video on her Facebook page of the principal and assistant principal of her son’s school, Jasper County Primary School in Monticello, trying to paddle him.
The boy resisted and struggled to avoid being spanked with a wooden paddle on his bottom. It was the way that administrators tried to position him to receive the spanking that Perez believes constituted abuse.
Perez told 11Alive News that she has been in a long-running dispute with the principal over her son’s attendance this year. She says he’s been out sick with a medical problem for a total of 18 days, so far this school year. But she says the school had her arrested for truancy, accusing her of not having her son in school.
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