‘I did pop him’: Teacher admitted to striking a 5-year-old with a ruler and leaving a gash on his face, prosecutor says

Background: Aspire Preparatory Academy in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Google Maps). Inset (top): Crishawn Nicholson (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation). Inset (bottom): Photo of the student

Background: Aspire Preparatory Academy in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Google Maps). Inset (top): Crishawn Nicholson (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation). Inset (bottom): Photo of the student’s injury provided to WSVN (WSVN).

A Florida teacher bonded out of jail after she was arrested for allegedly slicing a 5-year-old’s face with a ruler — something prosecutors said she admitted to doing in a video.

Crishawn Nicholson, 25, was released from Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center after being booked on Jan. 9, when she turned herself in to police. She was charged with one count of felony child abuse following a Nov. 21 incident involving one of her students.

According to the arrest report obtained by WSVN, a local Fox affiliate, Nicholson told the mother of the 5-year-old boy that he injured himself with a pencil, causing a gash in his eyebrow that required three stitches. But the boy had a different story.

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