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Alabama teacher arrested, fired after alleged beating of son captured on camera
A former Alabama teacher was arrested and fired after a video emerged allegedly showing her striking her child more than 20 times with a belt, police said.
Randi Nicole Staples, a 44-year-old who worked at the Cottage Hill Christian Academy, is now charged with willful abuse of a child under 18, according to WALA.
"Discipline is supposed to be for corrective action. That went way beyond that," Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said. "Snatch him up by his hair and yell and curse the way that she did, working for a Christian school, I thought was repulsive. It’s sickening to see somebody do that to their child."
"It's almost like a dual personality. Because by all accounts, I'm told she is a good teacher and well respected. And yet what happens in the home is clearly opposite of that," Burch also said, according to NBC 15.
The Mobile County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that, "A video recorded by a family member appears to show Randi Nicole Staples instructing her 12-year-old son to lay across the arm of their sofa inside the residence in Grand Bay, Alabama."
"Staples then allegedly struck her son on his bottom and legs approximately 20 times with a belt, during which the son can be heard pleading for her to stop," the statement continued, adding that deputies "interviewed several witnesses and found that other children living in the home had encountered similar actions."