A 'teacher of the year' has lost her job and faces criminal charges after a disturbing video revealed how she violently disciplines her own kids Nicole Staples has lost her job at the Alabama school where she was 'teacher of the year' after shocking footage showed her hitting her son with a belt (Image: Mobile County Sheriff's Office)

A second-grade teacher, honoured as 'teacher of the year' at her Alabama school, has been arrested after horrifying footage was leaked showing her brutally whipping her 12-year-old son with a belt.

Nicole Staples appears in the video lashing her son 20 times in the living room of their home in Mobile .

“You’re not f****** sorry,” Staples bellows as she repeatedly hits the boy while he screams and cries. “Because if you were f****** sorry … yo

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