A South Florida teacher has bonded out of jail after she was arrested for allegedly hitting a 5-year-old student on the face with a ruler. 7News cameras captured Chrishawn Nicholson as she walked out of Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Friday night. Wearing a light colored hoodie, the teacher covered her face and remained silent. Hours earlier, Nicholson stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer. The 25-year-old faces one count of child abuse. “There’s a video where she did say, ‘I did pop him,'” said a prosecutor. Speaking with 7News in December, the mother of the student who, police said, was hit with the ruler said her son was left scarred, physically and emotionally. “This was a gash. This wasn’t just a hit, this wasn’t just a little minor cut that you can just put a Band-Aid. This was a deep cut that required him to get stitches,” said the mother. The parent, who did not want to be identified, said the incident happened Nov. 19 at Aspire Preparatory Academy, located near Northwest 34th Avenue and 213th Street in Miami Gardens. “I received a message from the teacher with her telling me that he was injured,” said the mother. According to her arrest report, Nicholson told the parent that her son was playing with a pencil and got cut near his eyebrow. On the way to the emergency room, however, the child told a different story. “I asked him what happened, and he let me know his teacher did hit him with a ruler,” said the mother. The boy needed three stitches. Once his mother reported the incident, the Florida Department of Children and Families began investigating. Their report states: “During his medical evaluation, the victim reported, ‘My teacher hit me with a ruler,’ and then demonstrated how he was hit.” Nicholson turned herself in on Thursday. Her lawyer asked Glazer to allow her to keep working as a teacher. “This is a very minor hiccup or confusion, that I don’t believe that she should be strayed away from being able to work with children,” said the attorney. “I’m not going to order her that she can’t work in her profession, because this could be an isolated incident,” said Glazer. “No matter how frustrated you are, you shouldn’t take it out on that child, to where now this child, it could’ve been his eye; it was so close to his eye. Then he would have been blind for the rest of his life. Then what?” said the student’s mother. Glazer ordered Nicholson to stay away from the 5-year-old student and from Aspire Preparatory Academy. School officials did not immediately respond to 7News’ request for comment on the teacher’s arrest.