A Miami daycare teacher’s helper was taken into custody by police on Monday after a coworker and security footage showed her abusing a 6-year-old kid severely.
Marlene Carballo was fired from her employment at the Interamerican Learning Center, which is located at 1521 NW 28th St. in the Allapattah district of Miami, according to Miami police, even before she was placed in custody.
Little Havana resident Carballo, 52, is accused of felony child abuse. She had only been employed for nine days, according to the childcare staff, and she had cleared all background checks.
Surveillance footage from just before 1 p.m., according to the police, depicts Carballo attempting to make the youngster sit on a chair “by pushing his shoulders down multiple times and flicking his ear.”
Authorities stated in court on Tuesday that the child had autism.
The boy is shown on camera being forced to sit on the ground by Carballo “while she sits on a chair behind him and wraps her legs around him so he can’t move,” according to an arrest report.
“While being restrained by her legs, (Carballo) hits the victim three times with her right hand and once with her left hand,” police stated. “(She) then grabs the victim’s wrist and forces his hand to hit himself approximately ten times. (Carballo) is then seen grabbing the victim’s arms and forcing them down in between his legs.”
Authorities stated After that, Carballo got to his feet, lifted the youngster, pushed him “against a cabinet,” and struck him once more. According to the report, the boy’s therapist saw what was going on at this point and took action.
According to the police, she carried the boy into the daycare director’s office and sobbed as she said, “She needs to get rid of that teacher.” When the director questioned her about what had happened, the woman was directed to “look at the camera.”
According to the authorities, the childcare director then called Carballo into her office and dismissed her. According to the police, they went to Carballo’s residence in order to question her at the Miami Police Department.
The arrest report adds that Carballo said “she was just holding” the youngster so he didn’t punch her.
“When presented with the video evidence, she continued to deny hitting him,” it states.
Her admission that she “finally” made, according to the authorities, was withheld from the arrest record.
When Carballo, a citizen of Cuba, posted her $3,000 bond to be released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, she remained silent, but the man who picked her up spoke.
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Interamerican Learning Center personnel released a statement that included the following: “One of our newly hired employees was observed physically abusing a child in our elementary school. The act was witnessed by several therapists who were working in the classroom at the time and who reported it to the director.”
The youngster, who has been visiting the clinic since he was a baby, is doing better, according to the director of the facility. Since then, he has come back.
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