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NEW: 'Teacher of the Year' at an Alabama elementary school arrested after a horrific video of her allegedly beating her 12-year-old son with a belt was leaked by the boy's older brother.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 24, 2025
2nd-grade teacher Nicole Staples has been charged & fired from her job.
Staples's older… pic.twitter.com/sAZL0l6wef
The X post details the arrest of Randi Nicole Staples, a 2025 Alabama Teacher of the Year, for allegedly beating her 12-year-old son over 20 times with a belt in a leaked home video, resulting in her immediate firing from Cottage Hill Christian Academy and a charge of willful child abuse under Alabama law.
Video footage, captured by a family camera and shared by her 24-year-old son Jackson to protect his sibling, depicts the passive boy enduring hair-pulling and slaps after initial strikes, highlighting the older brother's role in exposing a pattern of abuse he experienced growing up.
While replies debate traditional discipline versus modern abuse definitions, a 2013 meta-analysis by Gershoff in Child Development Review links frequent corporal punishment to long-term risks like increased aggression and mental health issues in children, underscoring the incident's severity beyond cultural norms.
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