DUNBAR, W.Va. — A Kanawha County teacher is facing charges after allegedly abusing a non-verbal child a Dunbar Primary School classroom.

According to a criminal complaint, Willie Lee Washington, 54, of St. Albans, has been charged with battery and assault of a disabled child. Washington was a substitute teacher working in a first-grade special needs classroom.

The complaint stated Washington was seen on surveillance video on September 2 grabbing a child “under the chin roughly.” It also stated that Washington threw the child to the floor in a rough manner after he fled.

While Washington was caught on surveillance video, the audio was not functioning on that day.

At a Monday press conference, Attorney Michael Cary announced that Washington and Kanawha County Schools had been named in a

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