Two Omaha Public Schools employees, including a school principal, are on administrative leave after an incident at a metro elementary school.

Few details about the incident have been made available, but a witness has accused the principal of Sunny Slope Elementary and a security guard of assaulting a 7-year-old student on Oct. 9.

While the school district is investigating, both men have been put on administrative leave, but Senator Ernie Chambers has demanded that they be fired and arrested.

"Why would two full-grown men -- I would refer to them as goons -- go after a 7-year-old? I think something bad should happen to him," Chambers said.

The state senator tells Channel 6 that a credible witness told him Sunny Slope Principal Kirk Estee and a security guard used excessive force when restraining the young girl.

"They had a little girl face-down on the carpet," Chambers said, "the principal on one side, the other the security guard."

Chambers calls it "two grown men bullying and assaulting a young girl." He says it is unacceptable that the principal and security guard have not been fired more than two weeks after the incident.

"They would never treat a white girl like this, not even think about it," Chambers said.

Administrators say they have taken the situation very seriously from the moment they heard about it, and followed their normal procedure.

"I don't care to respond to the senator's comments," O.P.S.'s Sandra Hodges said, "but I can tell you that as soon as we received the information, we began the investigation and it's been on-going."

"Basically, that's what we're doing, reviewing and gathering information and making sure we get all the facts."

Chambers says that is simply not enough.

"Allowing these two guys to stay ratifies and condones and endorses and says it's alright," he said.