A Chattanooga man has been charged with child abuse after allegedly beating and throwing a young family member across an elementary school bathroom.
Police were called to Orchard Knob Elementary School on April 18 to take a report from staff members, Hamilton County court records show. They showed police security footage of Marvin Douglas, 50, taking a young boy into the school’s first-grade bathroom (The cameras only showed a limited area of the bathroom’s sink area).
Just outside the bathroom, a woman was pacing back and forth, court records state. At one point, she distracted another child from entering the bathroom.
The video shows the young boy being thrown across the bathroom toward the exit, court records show. Douglas is then seen hitting the boy several times and then dragging him by his leg out of the camera’s view.
Meanwhile, the woman outside is seen “laughing hysterically as the assault is taking place,” court records state.