An American woman faces decades in prison after being found guilty of running a fight club for children at her day centre!
Sarah Jordan, 31, was the lead teacher of one-year-old children back in 2013 at a day-care centre in Viriginia, USA.
Jordan was convicted on 13 felony and misdemeanor counts, including child cruelty, and assault and battery. She was found not guilty on four counts.
Witnesses testified that Jordan intentionally tripped children, stepped on their toes, encouraged them to fight each other and sprayed them in the face with a hose.
Parents said that their children suddenly became fearful of water and
started acting out in ways similar to the abuse described in the
classroom, like stepping on others’ feet.
Jordan denied the accusations. She said she occasionally used the hose to sprinkle kids with water because the sprinkler attachment was broken but never tried to hurt them.
She also said that the accusations against her were a result of disputes with her colleagues.
But prosecutor Ashleigh Landers said the three co-workers who testified that they witnessed Jordan abusing the toddlers had no bias against Jordan and one of them even considered Jordan a friend.
Landers said in her closing argument that the atmosphere fostered by Jordan was almost creating like a baby fight club and did immeasurable damage to the psyches of impressionable children.
Blake Buckner had a son that was placed under Jordan’s care and said he was forced to fight.
“The teacher was making him the class bully made to fight. It was hard to hold back tears, emotional, it was very deep,” Buckner said.
“She knows what she did. Justice has prevailed.”
The allegations against Jordan, and another woman, Kierra Spriggs, 26, first surfaced in a 2013 report from the Virginia Department of Social Services. Spriggs’ is scheduled for trial next month.
According to state documents, Jordan and Spriggs physically and emotionally abused the children for entertainment.
The report found the women encouraged toddlers to fight and dunked children afraid of water into wading pools.
Sarah Jordan, 31, was the lead teacher of one-year-old children back in 2013 at a day-care centre in Viriginia, USA.
Jordan was convicted on 13 felony and misdemeanor counts, including child cruelty, and assault and battery. She was found not guilty on four counts.
Witnesses testified that Jordan intentionally tripped children, stepped on their toes, encouraged them to fight each other and sprayed them in the face with a hose.
Convicted child abuser Sarah Jordan
Jordan denied the accusations. She said she occasionally used the hose to sprinkle kids with water because the sprinkler attachment was broken but never tried to hurt them.
She also said that the accusations against her were a result of disputes with her colleagues.
But prosecutor Ashleigh Landers said the three co-workers who testified that they witnessed Jordan abusing the toddlers had no bias against Jordan and one of them even considered Jordan a friend.
Landers said in her closing argument that the atmosphere fostered by Jordan was almost creating like a baby fight club and did immeasurable damage to the psyches of impressionable children.
Blake Buckner had a son that was placed under Jordan’s care and said he was forced to fight.
“The teacher was making him the class bully made to fight. It was hard to hold back tears, emotional, it was very deep,” Buckner said.
“She knows what she did. Justice has prevailed.”
The allegations against Jordan, and another woman, Kierra Spriggs, 26, first surfaced in a 2013 report from the Virginia Department of Social Services. Spriggs’ is scheduled for trial next month.
According to state documents, Jordan and Spriggs physically and emotionally abused the children for entertainment.
The report found the women encouraged toddlers to fight and dunked children afraid of water into wading pools.
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