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Former North Texas Daycare Worker Indicted On 8 Counts Of Child Abuse

March 1, 2019 / 3:03 PM CST / CBS Texas

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McKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A former employee at a McKinney child care operation was indicted Friday on eight counts of child abuse.

Jessica Wiese, 44, who was arrested in December 2018, worked at Joyous Montessori, which is currently under state review.

Jessica Joy Wiese, 44, was arrested and booked into the Collin County Jail for Injury to a Child. (photo credit: McKinney Police Dept.)

Wiese is still being held in the Collin County Jail on more than $600,000 bond after five new charges were added in early January.

The incidents include a 7-month-old with a broken arm and video of Wiese hitting an infant repeatedly in the head.

Wiese was arrested in December after video from inside the school recorded her slamming a 5-month-old baby onto a table.

There's also video of the infant room worker grabbing a 2-month-old by his legs and shaking him up and down and Wiese forcefully slamming a toddler into a table.

Wiese was a registered nurse who lost her license due to drug abuse.

At 2-months-old, Kairo Grant was one of the victims. His family said he suffered numerous broken bones.

Only 2-months-old, little Kairo Grant has suffered broken ribs, a fractured wrist and broken leg at the hands of the woman entrusted with caring for him. (photo credit:Grant family)