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A Florida mom is seeking answers after her five-year-old son came with a bloody gash near his eye, WSVN reports.
The injury reportedly stemmed from an incident last month at Aspire Preparatory Academy in Miami Gardens.
The five-year-old's mother, who wished to remain anonymous, said her son told her that a teacher hit him in the face with a ruler. However, the teacher told the mother that her child hurt himself with a pencil.
“This was a gash. This wasn’t just a hit. This wasn’t just a minor cut that you can put a Band-Aid. This was a deep cut that required him to get stitches,” the mother said.
The gash required a trip to the emergency room, where the child got three stitches for his injury.
According to the five-year-old student, his teacher hit him with a ruler after he was "playing around."
“He did admit he was playing around, and the teacher was yelling at him and frustrated because he was not listening,” the mother said.
The woman said she reported to incident to Miami Gardens Police after failing to get answers from the school.
“This is not normal, this is not supposed to happen. He was traumatized,” she said.
“No matter how frustrated you are, you shouldn’t take it out on that child. It could’ve been his eye; it was so close to his eye. Then he would’ve been blind for the rest of his life. Then what?” the mother added.
According to the woman, the teacher involved in the incident is still employed at the school. The school hadn't publicly commented on the incident as of December 5.
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