INDIANAPOLIS A former daycare worker will spend eight weekends in jail after admitting to slapping a 2-year-old boy in her care.

As WRTV Investigates reported, the incident happened at Kiddie Academy in Greenwood in November 2024.

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An employee at the time, Joyce Perkins, was working as a floater when she slapped Jayden, 2, across the face.

She popped him, said the victims mother, Jessica Hill. It was rage. I was furious.

In Johnson County Court on Monday, Perkins pleaded guilty to Battery on a person less than 14 years old, a level 6 felony.

Im very sorry that it happened that way, Perkins said in court. I did not mean no harm. That was not my intention.

Perkins claimed Jayden spat on her, which prompted her to slap him.

However, prosecutors said video of the

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