Miami-Dade student faces criminal charges after cops say he beat a 9-year-old girl!

A 15-year-old boy faces criminal charges after he was caught on video last week pummeling a 9-year-old girl in a Homestead school bus, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

The footage “clearly shows that this beating was far more serious than a simple student altercation,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a news release.

The school’s police officer who investigated the matter had the discretion to issue a civil citation, as the officer did here, or make an arrest for misdemeanor battery, according to Fernandez Rundle.

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