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Teachers at a North Carolina school have reacted with horror to a video of their middle-aged female teacher being repeatedly punched in the face and abused by a male student as she sat in class.
The teenager has been arrested after a classmate filmed the attack at Parkland High School in North Salem.
The teacher sits motionless as the student lands a right-handed punch to her cheek before he steps back and demands: 'Want me to hit you again?'
'I don't want it,' she replies before he repeats his demand and punches her again, this time with his left.
District Attorney Jim O'Neill said he had no authority to prosecute the thug as an adult for his assault on the teacher who has astonished investigators with her resilience.
Phones are whipped out at Parkland High School in North Carolina as the student attacks his teacher in class, towering over her and landing a series of blows
The middle-aged teacher sits impassively as the student punches her in the face again, sending her glasses flying from her face
'I still see it playing in my head,' Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said. 'I'm amazed that she even showed up for work today.'
A secure custody order was issued against the boy on Tuesday for one count of communicating threats and two counts of misdemeanor assault.
DA Jim O'Neill said he could not be charged as an adult because the charges only amount to a misdemeanor so they cannot be brought to superior court.
But he warned students that they face the same consequences for attacking teachers as they would for assaulting police officers.
'We're here to see that you're never assaulted when you go to work,' he told a press conference.
'We want to remind people if you put your hands on a teacher, it's the same as if you put your hands on one of these officers.
'The district attorney's office will bring the weight of this office down on top of you, so you should have fear of consequences.'
More than one million people have seen footage of the attack after it was uploaded by the student's classmate, despite the school's attempt to stop it being shared.
It is not known if the full extent of the attack was caught by the video which opens with the student landing his first blow.
