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.
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A former Kansas teacher has been sentenced to a year of probation after she was caught on surveillance cameras kicking a five-year-old kindergarten student in the school library. Online court records show that 55-year-old Crystal Smith was initially handed a 30-day jail term after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery at a video hearing last Thursday in Johnson County District Court. However, a jury granted her probation instead and ordered her to attend anger management classes, KCTV reported.
The February 2019 incident which occurred after the rest of the class had left the library was captured by a security camera at the Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School in Shawnee, Kansas. The video shows how the girl had managed to crawl into a bookshelf opening, before Smith yanked her out and kicked her as she lay curled up on the floor.
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A former Kansas teacher who was caught on security camera kicking a kindergarten student in the school library has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and a year of probation.
Crystal Smith, 55, was also ordered to attend anger management classes after pleading guilty to battery at a video hearing Thursday in Johnson County District Court, online court records show.
A security camera at the Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School in Shawnee, Kansas, captured footage of the February 2019 incident, which unfolded after the rest of the class had left the library. The girl had crawled into a bookshelf opening. Smith yanked her out, then kicked the girl as she lay huddled on the floor.
Kansas teacher, 55, is sentenced to probation after she was caught on video KICKING a five-year-old student because she was hiding behind a bookshelf
Crystal Smith was initially handed a 30-day jail term, but a jury granted her probation instead after she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery
Smith was first-year teacher at Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School in Shawnee, Kansas in 2019 when she was caught on video kicking student
The five-year-old girl was hiding in a bookshelf at school library when Smith approached her and kicked her in the back
When confronted by student s mother, she accused the girl of lying and denied any wrongdoing