A Tennessee man working at a behavioral school for children got into a spat with a 10-year-old and instead of "de-escalating" chose to tussle with the boy, with his mom saying he slung the youth across a dayroom by his ankle, according to cops.

"Yeeted me off the couch so fast like Superman," the child allegedly told his mother , Katelyn Swainson, who spoke to the local TV station Clarksville Now this week.

William Sturgill, 43, is charged with one count of child abuse or endangerment for the May incident at Oak Plains Academy after being arrested in August. A trial was set Monday for Dec. 15, according to online court records.

Swainson says she got a call on May 28 from her son about what happened, with the boy accusing Sturgill of getting mad at him over a blanket dispute, Clarksville

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