Childcare workers charged with creating 'fight club' at crèche
Two US daycare workers have been charged with child abuse after video emerged of them allegedly forcing children to fight one another.
Erica Kenny, 22 and Chanese White, 28, allegedly created a so-called ‘fight club’ at the Lightbridge Academy in New Jersey, inspired by the Hollywood film.
Police say children as young as four were forced to shove one another and take swings at other children in the school playground.
In one of the clips, Kenny can be heard quoting lines from the movie, which is a violent film about a group of men who fight one another for fun.
The videos were sent to one of the woman's friends via Snapchat.
Police say at least a dozen children were involved in the incident, which occurred on at least one day in August 2015.
The school released a statement saying they were “shocked and saddened."
“The actions of these two individuals do not reflect the culture of Lightbridge Academy and what we have stood for more than 18 years,” it read.
It is not known how long the pair were employed at the school.
Kenny is also charged with third-degree endangering the welfare of a child.
None of the children in the videos were seriously injured.
US childcare centres are already in the spotlight after shocking videos emerged of Apple Montessori School employees, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, using brutal force while handling at least three toddlers.
The father of a two-year-old Australian girl says he has been left enraged after watching videos of childcare employees abusing his daughter, and the 'deliberate and malicious' attempts to 'sweep it under the rug'.
