Driver charged: Fired California school bus driver Kim Klopson, 64, has been arrested on a felony child abuse charge for allegedly violently handling an eight-year-old autistic girl in February

A disturbing surveillance video has emerged showing a California school bus driver violently dragging an eight-year-old autistic girl while mocking the child for crying.

The Vacaville Police Department in February arrested 64-year-old Kim Klopson after reviewing the surveillance footage that captured the alleged abuse of the special-needs second-grader at Browns Valley Elementary.

Authorities said the Vacaville Unified School District contacted police on February 6 to report the incident and fired Klopson.

Following a week-long investigation, Klopson was booked into Solano County Jail on charges of felony child abuse.

The disturbing footage recorded by a camera mounted inside Klopson's bus on Tuesday was released to the station KGO by a lawyer representing the little girl's parents, showing the child sobbing and begging the driver to stop.

According to a statement from the police, Klopson was dropping off a group of special-needs students at Browns Valley Elementary School after 8am when the second-grader stuck out her leg to block another child from walking down the middle aisle.

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Brutal: The incident was captured on surveillance video showing Klopson allegedly abusing and berating the special need girl for misbehaving on the bus

Klopson is seen her jerking the eight-year-old to her feet to get her into the seat

The video shows Klopson confronting the eight-year-old and threatening her: 'And if you stick your feet out again to keep her from moving, you are going to be on the window. Got it?'

When the bus pulls up to the school, the confrontation between Klopson and the girl escalates with the 64-year-old driver taking away the child's backpack and forcibly keeping her in her seat and taunting her for crying.

'How old are you? One, oh no, a baby,' Klopson tells the weeping second-grader.

She is then seen physically grabbing and forcibly dragging the girl across the floor towards the exit door.

'You might think you can get away with this, but not on my bus, now you ready? Let's go,' she tells her.

The victim sustained abrasions to her head as a result of the incident, police said.

The victim, seen in screenshots being manhandled by the driver, sustained abrasions to her head as a result of the incident

Klopson eventually let the girl out of the bus, where she was picked up by an aide who allegedly witnessed some of the abuse

All the while, a school aide was standing just outside the bus and watching the struggle between Klopson and the little girl without making any visible attempt to intervene.

Klopson then grabs the girl by her jacket and violently yanks her to her feet before throwing her back on the seat.

‘You wanna crawl, you can crawl,’ she later says while standing over the girl sitting in the middle of the aisle.

Klopson then tells the school aide standing outside that they’ll be right out and closes the doors. According to the family’s lawyer, for the next three-and-a-half minutes the bus driver continues abusing and berating the child, who is heard screaming and crying.

When she tries to forcibly put the backpack on the girl's back, the second-grader cries out, 'I don't like you,' to which Klopson replies, 'I don't like you.'

'No big deal': Klopson, who has pleaded guilty, told reporters people shouldn't make 'a great big deal about that'

‘Please stop,' the girl begs. 'I don't want to.'

When Klopson eventually opens the doors and leads the girl off the bus, she reassures a small crowd of students: ‘It’s OK, I didn’t hurt her, guys.’

She bids farewell to the girl and tells her she will see her after school, adding, ‘That should be interesting.’

Klopson has pleaded not guilty to a charge of cruelty to a child by inflicting injury. She is due back in court in July.

When a KGO reporter went to Klopson’s home and told her about the release of the surveillance video, she said it should not have been made public and said: ‘don't make a great big deal about that.'

Around the time of Klopson's arrest in February, VUSD Superintendent Jane Shamieh commented: 'there are no words to explain why anyone would mistreat a child in that way. No child should ever experience something like that, especially at school.'

The parents of the autistic girl depicted in the video are now planning to file a civil lawsuit against the school district.