TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo Public Schools paraprofessional has been suspended without pay after surveillance video shows her restraining an 8-year-old student inside Garfield Elementary School last month.

The video, provided to WTOL 11 by the boy’s mother, Nancy Coffman, appears to show the employee grabbing her son and holding him against a wall in the hallway.

“He told me that he went to walk out of the classroom and she grabbed him by the back of his neck and that's how he got the scratch,” Coffman said.

Coffman said her son, who is autistic, came home that day with bruises and scratches.

“She snatched him by his backpack so hard that it broke the strap and then left a bruise on his neck,” she alleged.

According to Coffman, the school initially told her that her son, who has had behav

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