Updated: 11:45 AM PST, December 16, 2020
Crystal Smith, 55, was handed a 30-day jail term after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery during a hearing last week in Johnson County District Court.
A former Kansas teacher has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year of probation after she was caught on surveillance camera kicking a 5-year-old kindergarten student in the school library in February 2019, court records obtained by Inside Edition Digital show.
Crystal Smith, 55, was handed a 30-day jail term after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery during a hearing last week in Johnson County District Court.
Security camera footage from Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School in Shawnee, Kansas shown in court showed a 5-year-old girl who had crawled into a bookshelf opening. Smith pulled her out, then kicked the girl as she lay huddled on the floor.