Police: Principal dragged 11-year-old special needs student

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. -

The principal of a Neptune Beach private school for students with special needs has been arrested on a charge of child abuse as the result of an incident last month with a disabled child, according to police.

Neptune Beach police arrested 51-year-old Ronda Steinke-McDonald, the principal of New Leaf School on Third Street.

According to a police report, on Sept. 12, an 11-year-old boy was lying on the floor in a classroom and being defiant when Steinke-McDonald tried several times to persuade him to take his seat.

Ronda Steinke-McDonald Police said Steinke-McDonald (pictured, right) and another teacher then tried to pick him up and carry him out of the classroom. They said after that proved to difficult, Steinke-McDonald pulled the boy by his feet and dragged him nearly 30 feet over carpet, concrete and two door thresholds to the "quiet room."

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