Disturbing audio recording made inside an elementary school classroom in West Virginia

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And now to an ABC 7 exclusive a hidden recording device in a special education classroom raises alarming questions about what went on at an elementary school in Berkeley County West Virginia. Before we even play these we want to warn you what you're about to hear is disturbing. Here's 7 on your side IT reporter Scott Taylor. A lot of backhand you write in your teeth. How's that for anxiety? According to parents that's a secret recording of an instructor talking to kids inside a special education class at Berkeley Heights Elementary School in Martinsburg West Virginia. Amber Pach sent her eight year old daughter to class with a recording device after the child didn't want to go back to school. A different instructor in the same class. Will you got to go pee pee? Pee pee? Or do you not have to go pee pee and you just want to go. Oh, there's more. I'm going to pull your hair and tell you to stop around. Don't throw it. Don't throw. You're going to get in the middle of you. Yep. You'll win. You'll like to pick me. You'll like to pick me. You'll like to pick me. Next day, Pack alert, the school district, and the Martinsburg Police Department. You think this has been going on for a while? Yes. That was the first day I put the recorder in her hair. One day you caught all this. One day. Mm-hmm. Eight hours. You can hear the instructors sometimes singing songs and reading stories to students and other times. How your tears drive so quickly crack a die. And then she wants to throw everything at the right. I'm a knockout. I couldn't eat for three days. I was so my stomach, everything. I was just so upset. And every time I looked at her, I'd start crying. What is this? Casey Murphy, who's six-year-old son Owen, is in the same class as during a late October parents' teachers conference. Nobody alerted her to the recording, even though Pack had already handed it over to the school district. I've never heard from the principal. I've never heard from the superintendent. Never heard from any of them. It wasn't until November, after Pack posted a clip of the recording on Facebook, that Murphy became aware of it. I'm a beach butt. For sure. You know, and you're going to get one just. Just cubs. It's sickening. Like, people don't even talk to animals like that. And they're talking to nonverbal children who don't understand why they're talking to them like that. They're not doing anything wrong. On the recording, the instructors tease and refuse to give Owen food. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm not doing anything wrong. The Berkeley County Prosecutor's Office found no criminal wrongdoing, but county prosecutor Katie Wilkes-Deligati told Casey Murphy, I am not in any way condoning the verbal treatment of your children by the individuals in the classroom. Right now, all three instructors are on paid administrative leave. I don't understand why you treated her the way you treated her. She did not deserve that. No kid does. The school district which declined multiple interview request is still investigating. And says state law prevented from sharing information. The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Education right now is getting involved with its own investigation. We reached out to all three of the instructors. And so far we've only heard back from one and they're telling us she doesn't have any comment. It is absolutely disgusting and as a parent you are infuriated when you see that. Yeah, that is really, I don't know how these mothers just stayed so calm, but that's one of the reasons why they decided to come forward. And the kids are doing great in new schools. Owen is in a new school district and loves this class, loves his teachers. Hard to hear, but we hope change comes from this. Thank you so much.