When a parent drops off a child at a daycare center before work, they are placing much trust in the facility. Parents expect the center is in good and clean condition, the staff is properly trained and background checked and children are being properly cared for and supervised at all times. While it…
According to a recent news article from ABC News, a childcare worker is now in jail after being accused of hitting a 9-month-old child when that baby would not stop crying. This particular defendant was running a childcare center out of her apartment. While many childcare providers do so in…
When we drop our children off at daycare, we hope for the best and assume they will be fine. However, there is always a chance that an accident will happen. Day care workers and administrators have a duty to ensure your child is protected from unreasonable and/ or foreseeable hazards.…
According to a recent news feature from ABC News, one father is asking police and prosecutors to file charges against staff or owners at his child’s daycare facility after his son came home with abrasions all over his face. The father said the previous night, two of his children had…
There is nothing more tragic than a death of a small child. The effects on the parents can be so devastating it’s hard to even comprehend what they must be going through following such a tragedy. When the death of a child is alleged to be the result of what…
When we typically think of a daycare accident Boston, or the greater Boston area such as the town of Billerica, we tend to think of a child somehow getting hurt by falling, being attacked by another student, eating something he or she wasn’t supposed to, or even walking into the…
A recent news feature from ABC News reports that a five-year-old boy was allegedly injured by bullies at a daycare in Tampa, Florida. Authorities are saying that the boy suffered serious wounds to his face and abdominal region as result of that they are calling severe physical bullying or abuse.…
According to a recent news article from Mass Live, a three-year-old boy has drowned at a New England area daycare. State troopers have said that, when then the young victim’s parents arrived at the daycare facility to pick up their son, he was nowhere to be found. At this point,…
According to recent news form WRAL, authorities arrested a 25-year-old woman who was working at daycare facility. Police charged her with intentional child abuse involving the infliction of serious physical injury. Specifically, she is alleged to have broken the arm of a one-year-old child this past November. Another family using…
Most parents put a lot of thought into choosing a daycare facility. Sometimes that means asking neighbors for recommendations and then personally inspecting the facility to make sure it is clean and safe. Parents will ask a lot of questions of the daycare provider’s manager or owner about how long…