A Georgia day care worker has been accused of being "aggressive and mean" with kids, including a 3-year-old who was "forcefully body-slammed" onto a cot on camera, prompting criminal charges and a lawsuit from the child's parents.

Samantha Hertzog, 33, faces cruelty charges after surveillance video allegedly shows her kicking a young girl's cot — flipping the child onto her face — before slamming the toddler face-down on the cot's hard frame, according to a lawsuit filed by the youth's mother, Stephanie Watts, in Gwinnett County.

The complaint , which was obtained by local ABC affiliate WSB , says Hertzog carried out the alleged attack at Big Blue Marble Academy in Sharpsburg after Watts' child became "restless during nap time" and "kept taking her shoes off."

"Hertzog berated [the chil

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