"The teacher said he used too much toilet paper and made him reach his hand in the toilet and grab out the toilet paper with his bare hands. He felt like people were watching him have to do this. He was humiliated," Huffman told WKMG-TV.
"He had just got done going No. 1 and No. 2," she told WESH-TV. "All that was in the toilet, whatever, he had to do that barehanded."
Huffman said the teacher admitted to the incident but told her the toilet was clean. The mother said she was not reassured.
"It's endangering his health. I realized afterwards that there was cuts on his hands but like the bacteria, anything could set in on those cuts," she said.
Huffman said her son told her he didn't wash his hands after the incident.
Flagler County School District released a statement saying officials are aware of Huffman's complaint.
"We take these allegations seriously... an investigation was immediately launched."
The punishment may seen unusual but it is not unique -- Jennifer King Forshey, 58, a teacher at Broward Community Charter School in Coral Springs, Fla., was charged with battery on a child last year after she admitted to ordering a 10-year-old student to remove urine-soaked paper towels from a urinal with his bare hands.
Brent Taylor, a teacher at Scootney Springs Elementary in Othello, Wash., was given a warning and ordered to review a hygiene safety course in December 2014 after he admitted to ordering a third-grade student to unclog a toilet with his hands.
