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On the day in question, Middletown Police Department detectives responded to a report of a teacher assaulting a toddler at the Town & Country Early Learning Center on South Main Street in Middletown – a medium-sized city located roughly 15 miles south of Hartford.

The facility itself notified the victim's parents about the incident and invited them to watch internal surveillance footage showing what happened, according to police. After watching the video provided, the child's parents went to police and demanded that Kovarcik be arrested.

One parent described the surveillance footage – saying Kovarcik walked over to the toddler, grabbed the child by the shirt with both hands and "launch[ed] the victim through the air like a piece of luggage," according to an arrest warrant obtained by Greenwich Time.

Detectives used less expressive language to describe the incident, instead settling on a description wherein the defendant allegedly "picked up the minor child and tossed the child to the side," and left a bruise, according to a press release issued by the police department.

"The child's head then struck a nearby wall, causing a minor contusion above his/her right eye. The Director of the facility heard a commotion and pulled up the surveillance camera for Kovarcik's room," police wrote in the press release. "She witnessed Kovarcik toss the child aside and heard the child's head strike the wall. The Director entered the room and removed the child. She then reported the incident to the parents and DCF as required."