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A Georgia elementary teacher has been put on leave after a student said she and several of her peers were beaten in a line-up.
Britney Walker, mother of Dutchtown Elementary School student Nevaeh, told 11 Alive she found out about the incident after receiving a call from her daughter's principal.
“He said that, 'the only thing I can tell you is that she wasn’t sexually assaulted," Walker recalled. "And I said, 'does that mean she was physically assaulted?' And he said, ‘yes.'"
After the call, Walker went to the school to pick up her daughter, who had welts on her back.
“She said, 'mom, my back hurts. It's burning and it's stinging,'" the mother said of Nevaeh. "I looked at her back and when I pulled her shirt up, she had welts on her back.”
Nevaeh explained what led to the assault.
"Went to the library and my computer wasn't charging and I needed another charger and she got mad at me for not having it," Neveah said.
According to the student, the teacher lined her up along with several other students before they left the classroom.
"She literally hit us in our backs and we had two people that saw what happened," Nevaeh said. "Another teacher came to take us to the quiet room where we could write a statement of what happened.”
Walker said she filed a report with the Henry County Police Department.
"It’s nowhere you can go and assault kids where you don’t go to jail," she said. "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.”
In a statement to 11 Alive, the school district said it was investigating the incident, which they described as a "staff member having an inappropriate interaction with students." The employee will remain on leave during the investigation.
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