A Kentucky elementary school teacher seen on video dragging a 9-year-old student with autism through a hallway pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor assault.
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The teacher, Trina Abrams, is due back in court on Feb. 20 for a pretrial hearing, a judge said.
In the video shared Sunday on Facebook by the child’s mother, Abrams can be seen pulling the boy along the floor at Wurtland Elementary School in Greenup County, near the Ohio border. The incident happened in October, according to his mother, Angel Nelson.
“Do you want to walk?” Abrams is heard asking the boy at one point, to which the child responded, “No.”
Abrams was subsequently “removed from the school,” the district said in a statement Tuesday.
The judge ruled that she cannot work in a school setting or around juveniles unsupervised.
Nelson told NBC News that her son was diagnosed with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression, and also has limited speech.
She said he has “trust issues” stemming from the incident.
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