NEW HOME, Texas – Officials in Texas’ New Home Independent School District are working to contain parental outrage after a third grade teacher “accidentally” showed her students the video “Annabelle the Devil Doll.”

Parents and taxpayers flooded a New Home school board meetings on Monday and Tuesday to vent their frustrations with a teacher who showed students the video of a murderous doll possessed by the devil, and demand her termination, KCBD reports.

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A parent told the news site the teacher put a video on in class as she graded papers during two different classes March 8, though the teacher told her superiors the incident was an accident.

“Allegedly, the teacher asked her students if they were okay with watching a scary video before she showed it, but even when some of the students said no, the teacher decided to show it anyways, after a majority vote,” according to the news site.

Parents later complained that their children could not sleep after watching the video and were forced to seek counseling. Some parents also removed their children from the school district over the screw-up, KCBD reports.

Parent Ryan Hyatt told EverythingLubbock.com he didn’t initially realize his son watched the video in class when he told him about it, but later followed up with the school, which confirmed the incident and contacted parents.

“We think, ‘it’s just some kids showing videos,’ like they do now. Kids have their iPads. They’ll try to scare other kids. We had no idea it had been shown in class – that it had been shown by the teacher,” Hyatt said.

“It wouldn’t be a few weeks later til we would find out exactly what had occurred when one of the other parents realized that their child told them that it was shown in class by the teacher,” he said.

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After contacting the school principal, “they sent out a letter informing all the parents in the grade and a voice mail informing all the parents in the grade, an inappropriate video had been shown to the kids, and if they wanted to visit with the school district about it, they’d have the opportunity,” Hyatt told Everything Lubbock.

School officials suspended the teacher, who was not identified in media reports, on March 27, and was allowed to return to class after a two-week administrative leave.

One parent alleges the teacher told officials she played the video the first time and went to the break room momentarily, but when she returned it was already over. The teacher repeated the sequence for a second class, but said she cut the video off when she realized it was inappropriate, the parent told KCBD.

Students, however, told a different story. They said she never left the classroom during the video, and asked students not to tell their parents about what they watched.

Two parents told the news site the teacher apologized to them at the school shortly after the incidents occurred, and don’t believe she should face further reprimand. Others are calling on district officials to terminate the educator.

The teacher’s husband reportedly serves on the district’s school board, but will not be permitted to discuss his wife’s fate.

New Home ISD superintendent Leland Zant, meanwhile, issued a statement to the media about the incidents:

On Thursday, March 26, 2015, the District became aware that an employee had allegedly shown a six-minute video on March 8, 2015, that was not age appropriate to two classes of elementary school students. The District immediately placed the appropriate employee on administrative leave pending the District’s investigation into the allegation.

On Friday, March 27, 2015, the District communicated the circumstances relating to the video to all parents of the students in the affected classes through its automated telephone system.

Following the completion of its investigation, the District took appropriate adverse personnel action against the relevant employee. The District is confident that a similar incident will not occur again in the future.

State law prohibits the District from disclosing any further information relating to personnel matters.