A shocking video shows children throwing rocks at another child who screams in pain under a teacher’s supervision, police said.
A teacher at Teach N Tend Daycare in Forrest City, Arkansas, reportedly went to police on April 26 after she noticed another teacher tell students to throw rocks at a 4-year-old who did not sit down when directed.
The woman said that she and other workers were outside with kids when she noticed the teacher tell a child to sit down. The 4-year-old allegedly picked up some rocks and threw them on the ground.
The other teacher then told students to throw rocks at the boy to teach him a lesson, says the report.
The students listened and the troubling video shows at least a half-dozen children pelting the other child with rocks.
The complainant took video footage of the alleged incident as it happened. She then emailed the video to police.
The officer watched the video and entered the following excerpt into a police report:
“I observed approximately six toddlers throwing rocks at a white male toddler. The toddler is kneed down covering his face crying. A background voice says, ‘He’ll learn to stop, OK that’s enough.'”
The teacher in question spoke with police and said to investigators that the kids threw rocks all the time, and she didn’t recall letting someone throw rocks at another child.