Rachael Regan appeared before Bradford Crown Court in the UK on charges of child cruelty after taping the young child to her chair.
During this week’s hearing, the court heard how the 43-year-old TA “singled out and bullied” the now nine-year-old little girl over a five-month period at a West Yorkshire school.
As well as the shocking chair incident, the court also heard how Regan shut the child in a cupboard, hid her doll, called her names and mocked her, and tore up her photograph.
Regan, who denied the charge levelled against her, dismissed her actions as “a bit of fun”.
The judges did not see it the same way, however, and branded Regan’s campaign against the child as “shameful”.
Handing over the community service order, Judge Neil QC said: “You have been convicted by a jury of cruelty to a small child, in effect bullying her to the extent that it would properly be described as cruelty.”
Judge Davey added: “You humiliated [the child], you’ve already been professionally humiliated, now you’ve been publicly humiliated.”
Regan has also been barred from working with children in the future.
