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School principal paddling of child was not a crime, Florida state attorney says


Mother records school employee using paddle on daughter 01:59
(CNN)A Florida school principal did not commit a crime when she paddled a 6-year-old girl on the buttocks, as she appeared to have been asked by the child s mother to discipline the girl, according to a review by the state attorney s office.
The girl s mother secretly recorded the incident at Central Elementary School in Clewiston, Florida, on April 13 after the school phoned her to say her daughter had damaged computer equipment. The family s attorney, Brent Probinsky, said the woman was told to bring $50 to the school to pay for damages and that sometimes children were paddled. ....

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