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An Alabama Christian school’s reigning Teacher of the Year has been arrested after a video surfaced appearing to show her savagely beating her son with a belt.

Nicole Staples , a second grade teacher at Cottage Hill Christian Academy in Mobile , has also been fired from her job after she was charged with willful abuse of a child under 18, according to AL.com.

Staples, 44, was arrested on Wednesday after authorities received a tip about a disturbing video in which she can be seen whipping her 12-year-old son more than 20 times with a belt, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said.

The boy is heard screaming in pain before Staples pulls him up by his hair and hurls a flurry of profanity over his failure to follow directions.

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