Transcript for Mother Records 5-Year-Old Being Spanked at School

Next to the growing outrage after a piece of video showing two adults at an elementary school in Georgia. Prepared to paddle a five year old child it's perfectly legal in that state and an eighteen other states but parents across this country are divided. ABC's Steve Olson Tommy with the video and the debate tonight. Yeah. Or to police say which are bound to see in public grade school was perfectly legal. Five year old mother who recorded video gave her consent to school officials to paddle her son. They went well with other children and then spat on a teacher. Many parents have seen this denied its deeply disturbing and for many others just fine. 22 year old chain of arrest now says she felt pressure to let them hit her child. Ricci be sent to jail after more than three weeks is an excused absence. I would stay active go back and stop all this kind of snatch them up at that they needed now you know let's suspend him I don't care. Georgia is one of at least nineteen states that still allows corporal punishment in schools. An estimated a 167000. Public school children are physically disciplined every year authorities here in Jasper county say they never threatened Perez with jail. So you do spank you here. There are mean they were shaking her Aaron wound down and early news. What do something like through our bureau them. The school says because of privacy issues they can't discuss details of this case but tell us they are reexamining discipline issues. Underlining that corporal punishment is allowed here with the parental consent. David ABC's Steve Olson Tommy tonight Steve thank you.

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