TEMPLE, Texas — A daycare teacher at Ignite Learning Center in Temple is accused of bouncing a 3-month-old child in a baby bouncer so hard, the child suffered severe brain and retinal damage, according to an arrest affidavit.
Jasmine Collum, 24, is charged with injury to a child and remained in the Bell County Jail on a $125,000 bond as of Friday morning.
According to the affidavit, Temple police were called to McLane Children's Hospital on Oct. 16 to do a welfare check on the infant who had been brought to the hospital by EMS from the daycare on Hartrick Bluff Road.
Police reviewed video footage from inside the daycare that showed Collum "swinging and bouncing" the child in a very forceful manner, causing the child to "flop around as though they were a ragdoll," the affidavit states.
Collum then puts the infant in a bouncer and bounces it hard enough to cause the child's head and shoulders to be thrown forward several inches and then backward into the backrest repeatedly, the affidavit continues.
The report goes on to describe several ways in which Collum aggressively bounces the infant in the bouncer and on her lap by using her hands and feet.
In one instance, Collum is seen picking the child up then slamming them back down into the bouncer "so hard that the chair and the back of the child's head appear to strike the concrete floor."
At one point, the child becomes unresponsive and Collum takes the child to the daycare director who called EMS.
Doctors found the child had a subdural hematoma in the left frontal subdural as well as inter-retinal and pre-retinal hemorrhages in both eyes, according to the affidavit.
A doctor who watched the video said the injuries were consistent with what Collum is seen doing in the video.
As of Friday morning, there was no word on the child's condition.