A "trusted" Massachusetts day care owner has admitted to assaulting two young kids while she was watching them last year, including a 17-month-old girl who was yanked around by her arm on camera and another child who was slammed down and bound to a cot.

Sandra Downer, 58, of Natick, pleaded guilty last Thursday to two counts of assault and battery in connection with a pair of alleged incidents that happened at her day care , Lad 'n Lassie Nursery & Preschool, in October, according to local ABC affiliate WCVB .

Downer was caught on video committing one of the assaults on a 17-month-old girl in her care, WCVB reports. She can be seen forcibly pulling the child off the ground by her arm and lifting her into a seat as other children paint around her. Cops said the child was being held roughl

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