PARIS – The Maine State Board of Nursing on Wednesday suspended the license of Sharon Perry, a registered nurse accused of assaulting a disabled child in her care. The incident was videotaped at the home of the child’s grandmother in Buckfield.

“The board saw a sufficient amount on the video, and concluded that there was a basis for an immediate, summary suspension,” Myra Broadway, the board’s executive director, said Thursday.

The board’s action came one day after Perry, 49, of East Vassalboro, pleaded innocent in Oxford County Superior Court to aggravated assault and assault against the 5-year-old girl, who has a neurological disorder called Retts Syndrome.

Perry, whose case has been placed on the December trial list, was contracted to provide home health care for the child in her grandmother’s home.

Perry was arrested July 30 after the girl’s grandmother had seen Perry’s interaction with the girl on a baby video monitor in the girl’s bedroom. Concerned, she called the Oxford County Sheriff’s Department, and was advised to set up the monitor to record Perry’s actions while she was alone with the child.

The monitor recorded Perry changing the girl into her pajamas. She grabbed the front of her pull-up style diaper and ripped it off her, according to a police affidavit.

The girl’s head struck the safety railing several times over several minutes as Perry pushed the girl into her bed, the affidavit states. Perry is also shown on the video repeatedly grabbing the girl by one of her arms and flipping her.

The affidavit also states that the grandmother testified that the girl had four seizures during the night while Perry sat on the couch and did not get up to help her. “Perry was there to watch for just this sort of issue,” the affidavit states.

Broadway said Perry and her lawyer, David Lipman of Augusta, who were both present at Wednesday’s business meeting of the nursing board, agreed to waive Perry’s right to hold a hearing within 30 days.

The board, which suspends less than five nursing licenses a year on average, is required to hold a formal hearing upon request “because a license is a property right,” Broadway said.

She said Perry’s suspension will remain in force and would only be lifted by a vote of the board after a formal hearing. Perry still has the right to request such a hearing, she added.

Lipman could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Perry remains free on $25,000 surety bail, with the condition that she have no contact with anyone under the age of 16 and not seek employment as a nurse by surrendering her professional license.

Broadway said Wednesday was the first time the nursing board had met since Perry’s July 30 arrest. She said she had sought legal advice about Perry’s case from the board’s lawyer, who had been in contact with the state Attorney General’s office.