Daycare Injuries

March 23, 2015

Unlicensed Child Care Provider Charged in Child Death

According to a recent report from Fox News, a judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of woman who ran an unlicensed childcare center in Indiana. While defendant did not have a license to run a daycare facility, it was within state law, because she was watching fewer than five children at a time.

Authorities allege defendant battered a child to death and then tried to cover his death up by claiming the child choked to death. The young victim was 19 months old at the time of his death.

Prosecutors say this is not the first time defendant has had issues with the law. In 2006, she was charged with neglect of a child in her care. In that instance, child’s mother went to police after her two-year-old was injured by a blanket that had become tied around her child’s neck. Fortunately, her child survived that incident.
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March 8, 2015

Toddler Daycare Death Investigated

by Jeffrey S. Glassman

The death of child, especially a toddler, can cause unimaginable suffering to victim’s family. It is something so horrific, we try not to even think about such things happening.

According to a recent article from the Helena Independent Record, a toddler died after she stopped breathing while she was in daycare. Witnesses say young victim, an 18-month-old girl, died at a hospital in Spokane, Washington. Emergency personnel responded to a private residence being used as a local daycare. When authorities arrived, they found victim not breathing. They rushed her to a local hospital. Doctors pronounced her dead approximately a week after the tragic incident.

Authorities are continuing to investigate the situation, but medical examiners have not released a cause of death at this time. What is known is victim started aspirating her own vomit, and suffering swelling in her brain.
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December 27, 2014

Daycare Worker Arrested for Kissing Eight-Year-Old Child

by Jeffrey S. Glassman

When we drop our children off at daycare before heading to work, we trust employees will take good of them. We also trust daycare owners have properly screened and trained their employees, so no harm will come to our children.

According to a recent news article from WTNH, a New England area daycare worker is facing criminal charges after allegedly kissing an eight-year-old girl on the lips. Authorities are reporting a 77-year-old employee kissed the girl during an after-school program. It is has been alleged he kissed the young victim on at least five separate occasions.

During a police interview, daycare employee said it was the young child who accidentally kissed him while she was running and jumping into his arms. He also stated he viewed it as an accident, which occurred during an embrace between friends and happened on several other occasions earlier that month in the same manner.
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