A NURSERY teacher was secretly caught on video allegedly punching and splashing liquid in the face of a three-year-old girl – sparking a police investigation.
The little girl can be heard screaming “Mommy!” because it is horribly targeting a teacher at a school in Paris.
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The woman is seen in the video pulling her hand back before violently slapping the girl on the backCredit: X
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The teacher then allegedly grabs the spray bottle before pelting the three-year-old with it Credit: X/@EdbergVanessa
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The girl is then sent to the cornerCredit: X/@EdbergVanessa
The video – released publicly by a lawyer – caused shock and outrage across the country.
The alleged attack happened last Tuesday, the first day of the school year at a school in the French capital.
An unidentified teacher can be seen standing over the screaming and crying girl before slapping her on the back – causing her to fall to the floor.
Vanessa Edberg, a lawyer representing the parents of the girl who uploaded the video to X, said Tuesday: “It wasn’t a beating. She hit her on the back. What happened is extremely serious.”
The teacher is also said to have grabbed a small bottle and “sprayed an unidentified product on her face”, Ms Edberg added.
Saying the girl and the rest of her family were “extremely traumatised”, Ms Edberg said a complaint had been sent to police and prosecutors.
She said that the incident was secretly recorded by the mother of the other child, who was in the classroom all day.
The girl’s dad told Le Parisien: “My daughter had already been hit, that’s why she had a crisis and the mother who was there decided to discreetly film.”
After being hit, the little girl was sent to the corner and continued to scream “mommy!”
The teacher also tells the little girl, “You’ll see, your dad will come back when I tell him.”
At first, the parents did not know about the video, but the woman who recorded the alleged abuse turned it in after a few days.
The dad went on to say that they “went straight to file a complaint” and said his son was also “pushed by this teacher” when he was at school two years ago.
The teacher said Tuesday she was “on sick leave” while waiting to be interviewed by law enforcement, a school spokesman said.
“The teacher has admitted the facts and apologized to the family,” the spokesman said.
Aggravated assault on a child under the age of 15 is a crime in France that can lead to prison terms.
Local mayor Philippe Goujon said: “This happened the day after the start of the school year.
“The teacher was arrested and immediately fired.”
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The other children in the kindergarten look on in horror Credit: X/@EdbergVanessa
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