Dayton Public Schools officials have terminated a staff member for physically assaulting a nonverbal and autistic 3-year-old on the campus of one of its early learning institutions.
The apparent assault was so forceful that it caused the child to fall to the ground.
Video captured the incident. The boy’s parents went to press with the footage on Aug. 21 and are looking for immediate action, particularly since the school did not explain everything that happened to Braylen Tootle when he was picked up from school later that day.
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The boy’s father, Robert Tootle, said he was only told that his son bumped his head but was later informed by Child Protective Services of the details seen in the video given to the family on Sept. 11.
“It just made me mad,” Tootle said to WHIO TV 7.
The video depicts the ex-school employee at the Rosa Parks Early Learning Center not only chasing behind the kid and hitting him so hard he falls but lifting him back up and then carrying him upside down by the feet.
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Tootle and Taneshia Lindsay, the boy’s mother, have enlisted attorney Michael Wright to get to the bottom of the offense and figure out why the paraprofessional involved has not been arrested.
“They shouldn’t have sent him home pending investigation. He should have left that school in handcuffs,” Lindsay said.
“There’s a lot of questions that are unanswered that we need to have answered,” Wright said to the Dayton Daily News.
The DPS Interim Superintendent David Lawrence released a statement about the disturbing video.
“After this incident, the District took immediate action to investigate and remove the employee. The actions seen in the clip are contrary to all employee training, do not promote a culture conducive to learning, and are not tolerated in Dayton…
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