14-Month Old Left In Daycare

[kerrisan]

A daycare in Dallas accidentally left a 14-month old girl locked inside after hours.



http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071012/D8S7C1G80.html

As for the statement at the end, something like this is not an "honest mistake." The center had already been cited for record-keeping violations; obviously this is the result! You can't explain something like this away.

My child would be pulled from that center immediately if I had a child going there.

[Banrion]

OK, a sleeping child in a crib, I could MAYBE see, someone having a brain fart and not checking. But in a highchair?!? The kid had to have been in plain sight the whole entire time. Not to mention, every daycare I have ever been to has require parents to sign the kid in and out everyday, how did they not notice that there was a giant gap on their sheet?

[Ljt09863]

an honest mistake? and notice, that was from a mother that has a 3 year old going to that day care. how much you want to bet that if it was HER child left, that she wouldn't be calling it an honest mistake?

[blas]

Good honest people wouldn't be making the same mistakes over and over after several previous citations.

[FuzzyKitten99]

This is why I never wanted my child to go to a center... I always knew if I had to do daycare, it would need to be home-based. I got lucky and a family friend watched both our kids until I did open my own daycare. Plus the centers are outrageously expensive.

[Knightmare]

My daughter started going to preschool 3 weeks ago (that will be another thread).
The place she is going to has been thoroughly checked out by me. It has also come highly recommended by some of my parents friends (their grandkids go there).

But if ANYTHING even remotely happens like this, she is getting pulled out of there just as fast as I can get my butt down there.

It's scary, having to leave your child in the hands of some strangers. Sure, that place may have a license, but that's just a piece of paper.

I see reports like this all the time here in Florida.