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When a parent drops their child off at daycare, they are trusting the establishment with the most important part of them. They are expecting them to watch their child as they would watch their own.
Sometimes things turn out perfect, with great teachers and carers who love the children they are trusted with as if they were their own, who are supportive of both children and their families and just try to do their best in order to keep the children happy and safe for as long as they stay with them during the day.
Unfortunately, there are instances in which care providers don’t really focus on the children, but they rather go about their business while the children are left alone, or even worse abuse them.
According to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, in 2013 alone there were more than 3.5 million reports from CPS agencies, which involved more than 6.4 million children. The reports had mostly to do with neglect, followed by physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and medical neglect.
As child abuse statistics indicate, boys and girls are equally likely to be victims of abuse, while it has been found that the most vulnerable group involves children that are between 0 and 3 years old.
Sadly, a toddler had a traumatizing experience at the daycare, and her mom was shocked to find out what had happened to her.
Over a year ago, Alice Martin used to take her 15-month old daughter to a daycare in Arizona.
However, things didn’t turn out so good for them. One day, when Alice picked up her daughter from the daycare, she noticed the little girl was fussier than usual. As the daycare staff didn’t mention anything that could have upset the toddler, she took her home and acted normally. Until bathtime.
When Alice took off her daughter’s onesie to give her a bath, she noticed the little one’s back and arms were full of red marks, which she couldn’t identify at first.
“At first, I was like ‘are those really bite marks?’ And then, my brain kinda stopped thinking and I started crying,” Alice Martin told KOLD News 13. “There’s over 25 plus, it’s hard to tell. 25 would be the minimum that the police officer and I discussed.”
The mother couldn’t believe that the staff had seen her little girl being abused and didn’t do anything about it, or that they just ignored her cries. She could only assume that they had left the children alone and that’s when the incident took place, and this made the woman even angrier.
“The fact that nobody intervened in how many minutes, maybe they were left alone, maybe they just disregarded the cries, I don’t know. But it takes some time to do that kind of biting and my daughter would have been very upset,” Martin said.
Although Martin intended to go to court against the daycare, she knew it would be her word against theirs.
Learn more about the incident in the video below.
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