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A teacher's aide in Greenville has been charged with injuring a special needs child.

Surveillance video allegedly shows Lakenya Harris "open handed slapping" the non-verbal student.

Harris has resigned and is being held in the Hunt County Jail on a $75,000 bond.

GREENVILLE, Texas - Authorities in Hunt Count y arrested a teacher's aide, charging her with hurting a special needs boy inside a classroom.

Lakenya Harris is charged with injury to a child. Authorities in Greenville , about 50 miles northeast of Dallas, say she repeatedly struck him during a struggle in a classroom.

Greenville Middle School employee arrest

Lakenya Dwynette Harris

What we know:

The district says the educator, seen grinning in her above mugshot, resigned.

The 53-year-old paraprofessional wo

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