PICKENS — The director of a Pickens daycare center was arrested last week after several parents complained their children had been abused, according to police.

Margaret Sue Mullins Tennis, 60, of 153 Robbie Court in Easley, is charged with third-degree assault and battery. She was arrested on June 5 and released later the same day on a $1,092 personal recognizance bond.

An arrest warrant alleges Tennis, identified as the director of the Carousel Learning Center on Secona Road, hit a child on the bottom with a wooden paint stirrer known as “Bob”

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