The video was allegedly filmed by one of the other children at nursery

She pulls boy's trousers down and stabs needle into his bottom

A Venezuelan nursery teacher has been suspended after she was caught on camera punishing a young boy by stabbing him in the buttocks with a needle.

The teacher is believed to have been looking to 'punish' the boy, who appears to be around four years old, for bad behaviour at a nursery school in northern Venezuela's Vargas State.

The case became national news after the video showing the shocking punishment went viral in Venezuela.

Bad teacher: The video, allegedly filmed by another child at the school in northern Venezuela, shows the teacher stabbing a child in the backside with a needle as punishment

The video shows the terrified little boy being dragged across the classroom by the female teacher, who takes him to a shelf by the wall.

In front of the other children, she pulls down his trousers and tells him he is going to get an injection.

She then grabs what local media has reported to be a syringe,after which she is seen apparently sticking it into his bottom, causing him to scream in terror.

The teacher and her colleague have now been officially accused in a complaint to police of abuse of authority and child abuse, and have been suspended while an investigation is carried out.

Corporal punishment: The video was shot at a nursery school in northern Venezuela's Vargas State, as two teachers decided to reprimand one of the youngsters for being naughty

'Punishment': The teacher can be seen removing the child's trousers ion front of his terrified friends, before sticking what is reportedly a syringe into his bottom

It seems that the video footage has been made by a slightly older child, who had been playing with his phone at the time and was filming his friends, and luckily managed to catch the teachers' actions.

Other parents who have also complained discovered that the children were terrified and burst into tears when they mentioned the word injection to them, sparking fears that this was a regular punishment.

Prosecutor Anccelut Prieto said: 'We have ordered the psychological evaluation of more than 20 children after analysing the video footage and a report is being prepared for prosecutors.'