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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — A now-former Middletown day care teacher accused of throwing a 2-year-old "like luggage" was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison, suspended after two years served, according to court documents.

In August, Kristie Ann Kovarcik of Haddam pleaded guilty to a felony count of risk of injury to a child and three misdemeanor counts of second-degree reckless endangerment.

The incident happened in Oct. 2023 at Town & Country Early Learning Center in Middletown. Video showed Kovarcik walk over to the victim, who had fallen on the ground, picking them up with both hands before launching them "through the air like a piece of luggage."

The child traveled an estimated six feet before striking their head on the wall.

She was sen

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