JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A daycare owner faces charges after police say she beat a 3-year-old child with a ruler.

A mother reported to Jonesboro police that on June 17, her 3-year-old son was beaten with a ruler at a daycare on the 1200 block of Stone Street, according to the probable cause affidavit.

The mother learned of the incident after an employee recorded the altercation and sent the video to her.

“The mother examined her son and found a ruler-shaped bruise on his left thigh,” Detective Bruce Wright wrote in the affidavit.

The person in the video was seen “lifting a ruler over her head and striking the child multiple times,” the affidavit reported. The person was later identified as the owner of the daycare, Khalilah Parks.

After being provided with a picture of the child’s bru

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