Police have arrested a teacher who is accused of breaking a 3-year-old child’s arm at Mead School in Ansonia.

The child, who is enrolled in a pre-K program at the school, was with other students in the playground around 9:30 a.m. on March 25 when the incident happened, according to the arrest warrant.

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Video showed Mary Durso-Smith, a pre-K special education teacher, grab the child’s arm and drag him when he tried to go up the slide the wrong way, then continue to drag him after he fell on the ground, according to the arrest warrant.

When the principal reported the incident to police, she told them that Durso-Smith, 32, of New Haven, said that the children were at recess and she had helped the child up after he fel

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