CENTERVILLE — The father of a 1-year-old claims his son got cuts and bruises from a worker at a local daycare.
As News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott reported at 6 p.m. he claims this happened at KinderCare Learning Center in Centerville.
“He’s a toddler. He can’t do anything. I am his voice,” the father told News Center 7.
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He did not expect to have his baby returned to him with these marks.
“They’re unexplainable. They have no clue how the cuts and the bruises and the thumbprint got on the back of his neck,” he said.
He discovered the marks — he said no one at the center ever told him.
“He had to have cried. There had to been some type of bloodshed,” he said. “So for them to not be able to tell me what happened .. what’s going on inside of there?”
A worker at the center called the father’s fiance admitting to seeing another worker hurt his son.
“I don’t know if they were striking my child or they physically harmed my child,” the father said.
That’s when he decided to get the sheriff’s office involved which is now investigating.
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“We’re dropping our kids off at daycares and we’re expecting daycare workers to take care of our kids,” he said. “For me to find out that my kid is being mistreated. How else am I supposed to feel?”
News Center 7 went to the daycare and asked if the claims were true.
The daycare referred to their media team.
KinderCare sent a statement that said they have started an internal investigation and the teacher involved is on administrative leave.
“I’m happy that she was put on leave, but at the end of the day, I’m hopeless. He’s a 1-year-old,” he said.
The father said he does intend to press charges against the teacher.
News Center 7 will continue following this story.
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