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Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indiana?
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:26 pm
by Joe Guy
Day care teacher guilty of running 'baby fight club'
By Associated Press and Mike Moffitt
MANASSAS, Va. — A Virginia day care teacher who turned her classroom into what a prosecutor called a "baby fight club" has been convicted on more than a dozen criminal charges.
A Prince William County judge Wednesday convicted 31-year-old Sarah Jordan of Woodbridge on 13 felony and misdemeanor counts, including child cruelty, and assault and battery. She was found not guilty on four counts.
Jordan was the lead teacher in a Minnieland Academy class of 16-month to 2-year-old toddlers dubbed "The Monkey Room" in Woodbridge.
Witnesses testified that Jordan intentionally tripped children, encouraged them to fight each other and sprayed them in the face with a hose.
Jordan testified Wednesday in her own defense and denied the accusations. She said she occasionally used the hose to sprinkle kids with water but never tried to hurt them.
The allegations against Jordan were raised in a September 2013 report by the Virginia Department of Social Service after a coworker called child protective services. The report accused Jordan and fellow Minnieland Academy teacher Kierra Spriggs of abusing the children for their own amusement over six months.
Among the accusations:
The pair initiated fights between the toddlers and tried to get them to bite each other.
Kids fearful of water would be dunked into wading pools.
Jordan and Spriggs would feed the kids Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
The coworker, Desiree Edwards, testified Monday she saw Jordan intentionally trip a running child and then laugh. In another "Monkey Room" incident, Jordan dumped water on a little girl's head, making her cry, Edwards said.
The abuse caused profound behavioral changes in some of the children, according to NBC Washington. Parents said their children — once happy little kids — became aggressive, exhibited a fear of water or even stopped talking altogether.
Some refused to bathe, according to their parents, and most cried when they were dropped off at the center.
One dad, Adam Smith, testified that his daughter "completely stopped talking" once she was in Jordan's care.
"She would stomp her mom's feet. She would run in and slap us for no apparent reason and start giggling," Smith told NBC Washington.
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Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:30 pm
by TPFKA@W
Like I would be caught anywhere near a herd of children.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:31 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Picking them off one by one then?
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:44 pm
by TPFKA@W
The preferred approach is to wait until their thoughtless, clueless parents are obliviously engaged elsewhere and allow the rugrats free range in an eating establishment. As the little spawn runs past out bolts the foot and the kid goes flying. I would rather trip the parents, but they tend to catch on quicker.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:05 am
by Long Run
Joe Guy wrote:
MANASSAS, Va. — A Virginia day care teacher who turned her classroom into what a prosecutor called a "baby fight club"
Seems a natural battle ground.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 4:20 am
by Sue U
First rule of daycare is you don't talk about fight club.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 5:29 am
by liberty
What would cause a bitch to be like that? Few people have had a worse childhood than me, but I would take no pleasure in hurting others, especially children.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:31 pm
by MG McAnick
liberty wrote:What would cause a bitch to be like that?
No one knows what causes child abusers to become abusers. In some cases they were abused as childern themselves, either by parents or others within or outside their homes. Some of the abuse is absolutely heinous.
Two sisters were sexually abused by their older brothers for years. When their dad found out about it, he JOINED IN. Mom knew about it, and did nothing to stop it. Both parents and the brothers will be in prison for a long time. One of the brothers told the other one, and the investigating police, that "it was legal in Alabama''. AFAIK, he'd never been to Alabama to check it out. The sisters were on Oprah, but I don't think that was part of a sentence.
Another one that made the paper involved years of abuse by both adoptive parents. The girl was kept chained in the basement, starved and sprayed with cold water. Her brothers were unhurt, because they didn't have "demons".
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:33 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Long Run wrote:Joe Guy wrote:
MANASSAS, Va. — A Virginia day care teacher who turned her classroom into what a prosecutor called a "baby fight club"
Seems a natural battle ground.
Nice one, LR - maybe you should change your first handle name to Bull?
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:42 pm
by dales
liberty wrote:Few people have had a worse childhood than me .....
Oh I dunno............
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 10:22 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
What's the big deal over a babe fight club?
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:56 am
by TPFKA@W
Few people have had a worse childhood than me
I figured that you'd been dropped on your head a few times.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:25 pm
by No Greater Fool
TPFKA@W wrote: Few people have had a worse childhood than me
I figured that you'd been dropped on your head a few times.
By a nurse from Indiana?
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:27 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Does that mean she's a don't caerphilly?
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:49 pm
by Lord Jim
This story is being treated like some sort of funny ha ha deal...
But like the story about that poor dog left on the side of the road, and those pigs that those well meaning folks tried to give a warm Christmas Season to in the hotel...
I am ashamed and embarrassed to share the same genetic code as those creatures...
I really would prefer to not be even in the same species with them...
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:26 pm
by TPFKA@W
No Greater Fool wrote:TPFKA@W wrote: Few people have had a worse childhood than me
I figured that you'd been dropped on your head a few times.
By a nurse from Indiana?
I don't touch babies so t'was not me fool. B
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:31 pm
by No Greater Fool
OK, so was it another nurse from Indiana?
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:06 pm
by TPFKA@W
Actually Other than the thread title I don't see Indiana mentioned.
Re: Was This Day Care Teacher Trained by a Nurse from Indian
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 4:05 am
by liberty
Lord Jim wrote:This story is being treated like some sort of funny ha ha deal...
But like the story about that poor dog left on the side of the road, and those pigs that those well meaning folks tried to give a warm Christmas Season to in the hotel...
I am ashamed and embarrassed to share the same genetic code as those creatures...
I really would prefer to not be even in the same species with them...
I concur.