The mother of a Tennessee kindergarten student said a teacher at the child's school hit her in the face with a ruler, leaving a large bruise around her eye.
When Ciara Morgan picked up her daughter, Hailey Turner, from Cummings Elementary School in Shelby County she said she was shocked when saw the 5-year-old’s face.
“I actually cried because she had a big bruise around her eye,” Morgan said.
Morgan said the child told her her teacher was responsible.
“Ms. Lewis hit me in the eye with a ruler and told me not to tell anybody,” the girl’s aunt, Latasia Turner, said the girl told her.
The girl told her family the teacher hit her with a ruler after she told the teacher that one of her classmates wasn’t following directions.
The Shelby County School District said they take "any allegation involving the safety of a child extremely serious," but WHBQ-TV reported the teacher was back at school two weeks after the incident.
WHBQ’s Alexa Lorenzo contributed to this story.
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