Teacher who turned classroom into ‘baby fight club’ faces 40 years in prison

Sarah Jordan faces 40 years in jail (Picture: ABC)

A former teacher faces 40 years in jail after she was convicted of turning her classroom into a ‘baby fight club’.

Sarah Jordan, 31, tripped the young children in her care, stepped on their toes, sprayed them in the face with a hose and encouraged them to fight each other at her school in Prince William County, Virginia.

Police were alerted to Jordan’s behaviour following a complaint by another member of staff, and her fears were confirmed by parents who said their toddlers were exhibiting unusually violent and fearful behaviour at home.

One parent among the 10 that gave testimony at Jordan’s trial, Adam Smith, said his daughter ‘completely stopped talking’ after she went into Jordan’s care.

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Kierra Spriggs will go on trial in Feburary (Picture: ABC)

Another said Jordan and Kierra Spriggs, who is also accused of abuse, turned his child into ‘the class bully’ and ‘made him fight’.

Jordan was found guilty of 13 charges of child abuse at the conclusion of the three-day trial and faces 40 years in prison when she is sentenced in May.

In her closing statement, prosecutor Ashleigh Landers said Jordan had ‘created a baby fight club’ which had done untold damage to the psyches of impressionable young children.

Spriggs’ trial is due to begin in February.