childcare center killed baby
By mama4kids
@mama4kids (690)
United States
May 20, 2007 8:39pm CST
did you guys here about the childcare center that taped a 2 yr olds mouth shut because he didnt want to nap with the others and was making too much noise?? he ended up dying. how sad is that??
this is just one more reason to not trust day care centers or strangers with your most precious loves...your children. it is so scary now a days.
this happened in oklahoma. they childcare provider bound his hands and put masking tape on his mouth. thankfully she is being charged...but that doesnt bring that poor, innocent two year old back.
as a mother to 4, one of them being a loud, 2 yr old, i cannot even imagine how the parents must feel. i dont think i could hold myself back from doing something terrible to this woman.
these types of people should never be left to attend to a child. the world is just so scary, and even more so to parents. parenthood isnt easy to begin with but then when you put these type of people in charge of our children, it is even scarier...almost unimaginable.
anyone else read about this today?? my prayers are with that poor little boys family. i hope that this woman burns in hell for what she did to an innocent child that had his whole entire life ahead of him!!
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15 responses
@kara5287 (299)
• United States
21 May 07
this is exactly why i am so hesitant about putting my daughter in daycare so i can find a job. she is only two months old. and i seriously don't trust anyone at all to have her alone. even my friends...not that i don't trust them but she is my world. i don't trust no one with her life but me and my fiance. great discussion. makes ppl think.
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@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
i dont like putting kids in daycare either, especially when they are so young that they can't tell us whats going on all day once they get home. i would feel the same way as you...i do actually. i wont put my kids in childcare either.
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@zuiyirenjian (231)
• China
21 May 07
Reading this story,I can't believe it is true.how an honey kid is...but only because of making noise,he was ended up dying by the childcare center..I feel very sad in my mind.I wonder why these persons are so cruel to a kid with only 2 year-old...
Life should be very pretty to everyone,shouldn't it?
I always look forward to a sweet life that everyone is friendly and helpful to each other..not like this...
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@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
i agree with you!! you only live once..make it a good one!!
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@kareng (59167)
• United States
21 May 07
OMG! I didn't hear about this. This woman shouldn't be working with kids if she thinks that is how to handle a 2 yr. old. I'm glad she was charged, she deserves to stand the punishment for what she did. This family now is without a child. I can't imagine the turmoil this family is going through.
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@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
no she shouldnt have been working with children. she was alone at the time with like 5 or 6 kids under the age of 7. how sad.
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@rapolu_cs (1184)
• India
21 May 07
I agree with you and that lady should not be forgiven and she should be punshied a lot and even in the hell she is not forgiven and we the parents and those who join their kids in daycare centres should be care full about the strangers and the daycare centres,it is really terrible and a sad thing that worried me a lot all the day after i read this incident in parenting.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
it really is a sad instance and the sad thing is that this type of thing happens more often than we even know.
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@abroji (3247)
• India
21 May 07
It is a very tragic, heart breaking incident. My vocabulary is poor to condumn the caretaker culprit.
I don't know how these daycare centre is run in the US, but in our place, Kerala in India there are not much control or survilence over such centers. Many people start day care centre as a business. They engage cheap workers, without any training on thr work. These workers have no love for the children. They are doing it as they do any other work. But this work needs some special qualities. The first one is passion for the work, proper training in child care ect. Unfortunately there is no control over the managements who run such institutions.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
it is sad to work around children but not love children. that is just sickening.
@blackkatdreamer (1461)
• Canada
21 May 07
That poor Baby! That awful awful woman! I hope something awful happens to her and I'm not even a parent!
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
21 May 07
I read about this too and it sickened me. I use to own my own daycare in my home (before I moved to FL) and had at max 5 kids all under 4. I loved those kids like they were my own and cannot even fathom hurting one of them like that. It is a scary world. I feel for those parents and all parents that have little ones that have to be in daycare.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
i feel for the parents too. it makes me sick to think about.
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
21 May 07
I had not heard about this. The one thing I find very strange though is the fact that the people working there are usually not put through testing and stuff like that. People that work with this should be investigated really hard first. Children are the most precious thing we have!
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
i think people should be tested and one caregiver should never be left alone in case they have a moment like this where they feel that what they are doing is right. children are the most precious things in life and it makes me sad to hear that someone lost their precious child to something that could have been prevented.
@Foxxee (3651)
• United States
22 May 07
That is awful!
I live in Oklahoma, I have not heard the story yet, but I havn't watched any news today. I guess I will be watching the news later so I can hear what all went down with this case and to see what daycare it was.
Thanks for posting this. I need to watch the news more.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
22 May 07
if you have access to aol, go to aol keyword and put in news..maybe it will come up that way. i saw it on aol news the other day.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
this woman couldnt possibly be a mother herself. she must have some mental issues. a sane person just doesnt do something like that, ya know?
maybe the child care centers should do some heavy duty testing before hiring people. mental testing should be one of the tests as well as background checks and criminal investigations. maybe she was on meds or something or maybe she needed to be on meds for a health or mental condition and forgot to take it that day.
whatever her story is, it isnt a good enough excuse. there is no excuse for what she did.
@Lovett (464)
• India
21 May 07
Its so sad that these childcare centers are so careless. I mean loss of a child would be the last thing any parent would want from these centers. I personally feel that these centers should have strict rules and regulations regarding running them. n see the irony,, the parent sends the child here to be safe n learn new things,n wat happens!!!!! I feel so sorry for the family. My prayers r with the family.. I can imagine myself in their state, n can feel wat they r goin thruogh. I hope it never happened.... I feel so sad...
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
i think the rules should be more strict as well. i feel so bad for the family. and it is all over the internet and news so they just cant get away from it. i hope it never happens to me or anyone else again!!
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
22 May 07
I once placed one of my foster children in to daycare because a social worker told me that it would be good for him to socialize with the other children there. I was taking him to the park and play groups but she thought that he should go to daycare. Well a couple of weeks after he started going to daycare I picked him up early one day to take him shopping for his birthday presents. He was wearing shorts that day. When he jumped out of my truck I saw a mark on his little leg. I lifted up the edge of his shorts and saw what looked like a handprint on his upper thigh. I called the social worker immediately to report what I found. I had pictures and everything. They told me that I had no proof that it happened at the daycare. After that incident I have refused to take any child in my care to a daycare. My mom babysits my children.
I feel sorry for anyone who has to use a daycare. I wish that there was other alternatives that they could use instead. Those poor children didn't deserve anything that was done to them. And I don't feel like there is a big enough punishment to give these types of people.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
22 May 07
that is so sad!!! child abuse is the worst. i am sorry that you went thru all of that.
i wont send my kids to daycare either. they are too important to me!!!
@SilentRose19 (1733)
• United States
22 May 07
It is sad what is happening to children in our societies noaday's, I can't bare to read it sometimes. I've heard about this incident and it just makes my heart ache with sadness, how sad. I feel so bad for the childs parents, its just not an age to be in right now. I really feel that children are the targets in this century, people just aren't good people anymore. You have to worry about your children leaving the house, much less worrying about who to leave them with. I cannot stand taking my son to daycare, thats why i'm a stay at home mother. i can't imagine how the family must feel, my heart goes out to them.
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
you are 100% right. sometimes it takes years to see someones true colors. it is scary!!!
@maehan (1439)
• United States
21 May 07
That's crazy! They are just kids. As a teacher or childcare provider, they should be patient and love kids. Kids just wanna to have fun. At times, they just refuse to sleep or take a nap as they feel that they are not tired. They do not know what is right or wrong. So, as a parent, teacher, childcare provider or an adult, it is our duty to tell them what is right or wrong, good or bad and nurture them.. That's pretty sad for the poor boys family. I felt sad too :(
@mama4kids (690)
• United States
21 May 07
i agree. if you work around kids, you have to love kids and be patient with them.
