Hastings daycare operator pleads guilty to assaulting a 4-month-old child in 2022


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A Hopkins home daycare operator has pleaded guilty to assaulting a 4-month-old boy in 2022.

Megan Appert, 41, was charged back in 2022 with first-degree assault causing great bodily harm and third-degree assault with a victim under the age of four years old, with the third-degree assault charge later amended to third-degree assault with substantial bodily harm.

Now, four years after she was charged, Appert has pled guilty to the third-degree assault charge.

A sentencing date has been scheduled for Sept. 11 at 1:30 p.m.

As previously reported, Appert was charged following an investigation stemming from a 4-month-old boy who was in her care displaying concerning signs. Appert ran an in-home daycare.

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