OKEECHOBEE, Fla. – A 10-year-old student with autism went in to Okeechobee Achievement Academy on Wednesday to take a state standardized test, and he left in handcuffs to face criminal charges stemming from an incident six months ago.

Luanne Haygood told WBPF her autistic son, John Haygood, was expelled from Okeechobee Achievement Academy last fall and forced to complete work from home after he allegedly kicked a paraprofessional at the school.

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During the October 27 incident, Haygood was allegedly being disruptive in class and hitting other students, so the teacher told him to take a timeout. A police report from the incident alleges he attacked the teacher and left scratches when he refused and was forcibly removed from the classroom.

“I know what happened six months ago,” Luanne Haygood said. “I never seen an arrest report, I never saw the charges. I just know what was told that he may or may not press charges.”

After months with no follow-up, the boy returned to the Academy on Wednesday after school officials requested he take a state standardized test. Instead, police ambushed the child and hauled him off to jail.

Haygood recorded the arrest on her cell phone as police escorted the boy in handcuffs to an awaiting cruiser, ignoring her repeated pleas for more information about the situation.

“Excuse me, do you have any paperwork or anything you can say to me,” Haygood asked the officers as her son screamed out, “I don’t know what’s going on!”

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She later posted about the ordeal on Facebook.

“I was extremely angry, that I felt like this was a power play. I felt like it was ‘this is what you get, you can’t do anything about it. We’re going to arrest your son if he can’t abide by the rules,’” Haygood said.

It wasn’t until the next day, after John spent the night in jail, that the mother learned the boy faces a criminal charge of felony battery on a school board employee, RT.com reports.

“For him to come in, in a jumpsuit that is covering his feet and 6 inches past his hands and when the judge asks him to raise his right hand we couldn’t even find it,” she said of the boy’s Thursday court appearance.

Haygood said she was shocked by how school and police officials handled the situation.

“To go and have him arrested on school grounds, in front of other students, in front of personnel, during school hours … They could have come to my house at any time and told me what was going on,” she said.

“I want something done,” she said. “I want other kids to not have to go through this.”

School officials would not discuss the incident, but instead issued a prepared statement that alleges officials did not lure the boy to the school to face arrest.

“It has been district procedure to invite students in to take the Florida Standards Assessment,” the statement read, according to Fox 8. “The district would not invite someone to one of our campuses for the sole purpose to arrest.”