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Birmingham Student Says Beaten In Class|ABC 33/40 News
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Birmingham, AL - A Birmingham child was allegedly beaten for giving the wrong answers on a test.
Sarah Blackmon claims the teacher used a belt on her son after he missed six questions. The beating reportedly broke the skin.
His mother says her son Tony is traumatized by what happened and she is livid. Her son's disability is learning, not behavioral. She says if she had hit her own child, someone would have reported her to the Department of Human Resources so it is unacceptable for a teacher to ever do so.
"He's in special ed because he needs the help and she did this in front of the class and she humiliated him," said Blackmon.
She says 9 year-old Tony can not get past the beating his teacher gave him. She points to a scar on his leg that shows the remnant of a wound now a month old.
"That Monday morning when he got ready to go to school he was hysterical," Blackmon said.
That is when she knew something was wrong. When Tony told her about the alleged beating, she called the Barrett Elementary School teacher herself.
"She said 'he took the test, he brought it up to be graded, he got six answers wrong and I took my belt off and I hit him.'
Her attorney Kira Fonteneau says, while corporal punishment is legal in Alabama, what happened violates the school system's policy as well as federal law.
"We believe that hitting him in that way because he failed to perform was in fact hitting him because he was disabled," said Fonteneau.
Her attorney Kira Fonteneau says, while corporal punishment is legal in Alabama, what happened violates the school system's policy as well as federal law.
"We believe that hitting him in that way because he failed to perform was in fact hitting him because he was disabled," said Fonteneau.
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