Tutor sends 7-year-old to hospital for 'being disruptive in class'

The incident was caught on camera from the elementary school classroom.

Timothy Randall Korr is a 25-year-old tutor at City Springs Elementary School who has been charged with assaulting 7-year-old Trayvon Grayson in the classroom.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Korr has been charged with felony child abuse and assault after police reviewed video footage of the incident.

Korr claimed Grayson was misbehaving in class, so he was retraining and escorting him out when the boy tripped and "hit himself" on the wall.

Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith stated Korr was carrying Grayson a short distance before slamming the boy into the wall.

"Slammed so hard his body went limp," Smith explained. "To watch a child be basically manhandled like a sack of potatoes is incomprehensible."

Grayson's mother, Lateekqua Jackson, told CNN affiliate WBFF: "I looked in the ambulance and there's my son, his face big, mouth bloody. I turned to the man, I said, 'This isn't regular restraint.'"

After being checked at a local hospital, doctors discovered Grayson had two teeth knocked out, a jaw fracture, a tooth shoved into his gum and several cuts and bruises.

"He can't throw himself into the wall and fracture his jaw and lose his teeth," Jackson cried. "He's only 7 years old. He's so small he's not going to do the damage to himself."

Baltimore City Schools fired Korr and is investigating the incident, alongside Baltimore police.

The school released a statement explaining they "are working with BCP to cooperate fully in the police investigation of the incident and will take any action warranted once the investigation is complete."

Grayson is on his second day in Johns Hopkins Hospital and Korr has been charged with first-and second-degree child abuse, first-and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and neglect of a minor.

Laura Doherty, the president and CEO of the Baltimore Curriculum Project, reported the incident made her "heartsick" and added: "This is an unusual, isolated incident for our schools, and we are participating in a through investigation into what exactly happened. The employment of the one employee involved has been terminated."

Jackson, who was interviewed as tears streamed down her face, explained: "I sent him to school thinking he was going to learn and be protected in their custody. And no one was there to protect him.

"They couldn't even tell me where my son was. He was on the floor bleeding, knocked out, didn't know what happened. I just want justice for my son, I just want justice for him."

Of Korr, Jackson stated, "He shouldn't be able to work at nobody's school, doing that to nobody's child."

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