A former teacher at a childcare center in Middletown has been arrested for allegedly tossing a 2-year-old child into a wall. The incident was captured on surveillance video and reported by the child's guardian. The teacher has been identified as Kristie Kovarcik and has been terminated from her job.
A former teacher at a childcare center in Middletown is accused of tossing a 2-year-old child 'like a piece of luggage' into a wall at the facility and has been arrested. Middletown police said it happened at Town & Country Early Learning Center at 195 South Main St. on Jan. 12.
They started the investigation that day when the child's guardian went to police to ask that the teacher be arrested after the facility notified her about the assault and allowed her to watch internal surveillance video of the incident, according to police. Police identified the teacher as 47-year-old Kristie Kovarcik, of Haddam. Town & Country reported that Kovarcik was terminated from her job, according to police.She said the child fell to the ground, then Kovarcik grabbed the child's shirt with both hands, picked the child off the ground and launched the 2-year-old 'through the air like a piece of luggage,' the arrest warrant says. According to police, the director of the facility heard an elevated voice when it happened, pulled up the surveillance camera for Kovarcik’s room and saw children 'wrestling
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