An Indiana kindergarten teacher was reportedly caught on tape while addressing one of her students a series of offensive words, and thus she was suspended, ABCnews reported.

Tabitha McMahan, mother of Gabriel Ross, and J.R. Edwards, the boy’s stepfather, were interviewed on "Good Morning America" about the teacher and the way their son was treated.

According to the parents of the five-year-old, after he complained to them that one of the teachers, Kristen Woodward, at S. Ellen Jones Elementary School was being "mean" to him, they hid a digital tape recorder in his pants pocket in order to hear what was going on in school.

On the resulting tape, a woman’s voice can be heard describing a student as "ignorant, selfish, self-absorbed, the whole thing," and also calling the student "pathetic."

"Something needs to be done because you are pathetic! If me saying these words to you hurt, I hope it does because you're hurting everyone else around you," the same voice can be hear further on while Gabriel can be heard crying.

"You think it's bad when you see it on paper, but when you are hearing the way she says it to him. I can't even talk about it," McMahan told ABC affiliate WHAS, breaking into tears.

Even though Gabriel is far from a model student, according to his daily behavior folder which includes phrases like, "refused to listen," "talked nonstop interrupting the teachers," "terrible day" and "talked nonstop today," the parents said the teacher's response was beyond discipline.

After 11 years of teaching, according to the Indiana Department of Education, Woodward has been suspended indefinitely. However, the teacher's union filed a grievance on behalf of the teacher claiming she was punished unfairly.

"You're guilty until proven innocent in this school system," said a representative with the Indiana Teachers Association, on behalf of the teacher.