daycarediva 10:59 AM 09-09-2014
how far would YOU go to protect a child in your care?
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/e...274170881.html
http://www.startribune.com/local/273325741.html
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At day care, Myslicki said the signs of abuse stopped for a few months until one morning in August 2012. Peltier was furious with Eric when she came to pick him up, Myslicki said. The boy cowered as Myslicki held on to him. Peltier slapped Eric out of her hands, knocking him to the floor, and yelled at him to get his shoes on, according to Myslicki.
Myslicki made her final report to the county.
“If that’s not maltreatment,” Myslicki said, “I don’t know what is.”
The county screened out the report. Myslicki said child protection told her that if she had any further problems with Peltier and Eric, she should contact her day-care licenser.
Myslicki said the bruises, bleeding ears and bite marks started to reappear. Eric continued to tell her his stepmother was hurting him. But she stopped filing reports.
“What good would it have done?” she said.
In October 2012, two months after Myslicki’s last report, Peltier pulled Eric out of the day care. She started caring for him and the five other children in the blended family in their Starbuck home. It was there that Eric would suffer the final abuse.
I would have called 911 when she slapped him out of my hands. I would have called CPS daily before then, but witnessing abuse? IMMEDIATE 911 phone call.
Numerous bites, bruises, scratches and bleeding and the child readily fearful of his step mother and verbally saying mommy did it.
I cannot imagine what that provider is going through. I just cannot imagine.