Olive Rack, owner of Tresco House Day Nursery in Kettering, Northamptonshire (pictured), attended a preliminary hearing at Kettering Magistrates Court on 20 December. A trial is to take place on 15 June.
The incident took place at the nursery on 18 July 2005, and was reported by two Northamptonshire County Council officials who were visiting the nursery at the time to advise on the curriculum.
Mrs Rack said, 'I was talking to the council workers when I spotted a two-year-old girl hitting a 12-month-old baby on the head with a large toy brick. I called the girl's name but she did not respond and hit the baby again. I walked towards the toddler and, when she saw me, she dropped the brick and started to cry.
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