A Kansas elementary school teacher has been caught on camera kicking a five-year-old kindergarten student and aggressively grabbing the child during library class.

Teacher Crystal Smith was caught on surveillance footage at Bluejacket Flint elementary school in Shawnee kicking a toddler who was hiding in a bookshelf in the library on February 21.

In the clip the teacher can be seen approaching the young girl and grabbing her arm to get her out of the cubby hole then kicking her back as the girl laid sprawled on the ground.

The girl reported she was hit to her homeroom teacher who failed to report it to the school's administration.

'When I saw the video it was heartbreaking, because everything she said, she sat at the same table as me and just lied about everything ... she lied to me. She lied to everyone else. She was almost really convincing,' the mother said to .

Contrary to Smith's claims, the video shows the little girl refusing to get in the line with her peers and crawling into the bookshelf.

After the class leaves the library, the teacher returns and finds the girl in the bookshelf.  Smith then grabs the child by the arm, drags her to the ground, and gives her rough kick in the back.

'I can't really even put it into words. I hurt for my child, and I was just angry that someone could do that,' the mother said.

Now she worries about what other children may have been hurt behind closed doors.

Source: Daily Mail