GREENUP, KY (1010 WINS) -- A Kentucky teacher has been fired and charged with assault after a video showed her dragging a 9-year-old boy with autism through the halls.
"It broke my heart when I saw the video, and I saw all of the his new classmates and new friends along the wall watching him getting dragged down the hallway," his mother Angel Nelson said.
Trina Abrams was terminated on Monday, more than two months after the October incident took place.
"The teacher was removed from the school and a formal investigation was conducted," Sherry Horsely, the school district's superintendent, said in a statement to WSAZ. "The superintendent also followed protocol and reported the incident to the Kentucky Education Standards Board."
Nelson said her son is prone to 'experiencing a meltdown' because he suffers from autism, ADHD, PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
Nelson says her son claims he was thrown onto a chair, and then dragged around the hallway by the wrist. A complete video of the incident was unavailable because a camera in the classroom was turned towards the corner.
She says her son suffered a sprained wrist and possible worse during the incident.
"The doctor diagnosed him with a possible left wrist fracture," she said, "In the days following, he suffered swelling and bruising around his wrist," she said, "In the days following, he suffered swelling and bruising around his wrist."
In addition to emotional trauma, Nelson says her son was humiliated in front of the other kids.