MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WFSB) - A former Middletown daycare worker police said tossed a 2-year-old child “like a piece of luggage” has been sentenced.

49-year-old Kristie Kovarcik was sentenced to 8 years in prison, suspended after 2 years served.

Kovarcik pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a child and misdemeanor second-degree reckless endangerment charges back in August.

Surveillance video of the incident showed Kovarcik pick up the child by the shirt and toss them .

“The child’s head then struck a nearby wall causing a minor contusion above his/her right eye,” police said in a news release.

She turned herself in to police on Feb. 26, 2024.

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