CRYSTAL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A teacher at a daycare learning center in Crystal faces charges after an alleged slap that occurred on a student enrolled under her watch.

Crystal daycare teacher charged

What we know:

Javell Lena Cooper, 24, of Coon Rapids, faces two counts of malicious punishment of a child.

Crystal police say that on July 25, 2025, officers were dispatched to a child abuse report at a daycare located with a church on the 5000 block of West Broadway in Crystal.

Police say that the parent of a 3-year-old child arrived to pick up his son from the learning center and arrived to find the child crying hysterically.

Cooper allegedly told the parent that the child was crying because another child hit them the moment before, but the child later told the parent that Cooper had s

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