A Galloway Township woman accused of abusing children at an Egg Harbor Township childcare center was given two years' probation, BreakingAC has learned.
Angela Capella pleaded guilty Oct. 11, to one count of third-degree endangering, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office confirmed.
Capella was released on a summons, with Egg Harbor Township police citing bail reform.
She was fired from Kids' Choice Academy on the Black Horse Pike.
“None of our children were injured or bruised as reported by some outlets,” the center's Executive Director Cordis Chikezie wrote in a letter sent to parents the day after the arrest.
The documents gave insight into the abuse, including a then-2-year-old girl being grabbed from her cot and slammed back down six times within a 30-minute period.
The girl was then slammed onto a chair and verbally disciplined, according to the complaint.
Capella pulled another girl, whose family also said she was 2 at the time, over to her by the arm, even though “there was no danger or need to bring (the victim) to the defendant,” the complaint states.
A boy was grabbed from a privacy cube where he was lying on his back, and dragged out of the classroom towards the bathroom “while he is visibly screaming and crying,” the document states.
That boy was grabbed off a plastic cot during nap time, and then slammed back down, the charge reads, echoing what a mother told BreakingAC she saw done to her daughter on video.
Capella was indicted Feb. 14, 2023, on on four counts of second-degree endangering – abuse/neglect of a child.
Eight months later, she took a plea deal.
Capella, now 28, was sentenced Jan. 16 to two years probation and a mental health evaluation. She also was banned from working at schools, although she could file to remove that condition in the future.
The victims were satisfied with plea, according to the Prosecutor's Office.
