Mom finds her baby alone, locked inside daycare

[Liberal_in_LA]

Mom finds her baby alone, locked inside RI daycare

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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(08-13) 09:48 PDT Johnston, R.I. (AP) --

A 9-month-old baby was left alone at a locked Rhode Island daycare center for nearly an hour when workers shut the place down for the night, apparently forgetting the child was there.

The baby's mother, Julia Castillo, says she came to pick up her son Monday at the My Special Place Early Learning Center in Johnston, only to find the center locked and no one around. A neighbor heard her yelling and banging on the door and helped her get inside, where she found her baby boy crying in a crib.

The day care owner, Jessica Faiola, says the child's mother did not sign the baby in when she dropped him off. She calls it a "crazy mistake" and doesn't want to point fingers.

Kevin Savage, of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, says the center has been put on probation.


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[kirby]

1. "mother did not sign the baby in"

Seriously? That is their excuse? That is the only set of controls they have before locking up? Idiots.

[babylonsister]

2. The owner doesn't want to point fingers, and then does so?

I think I'd be pointing the finger at the owner for allowing a baby to be left alone w/o adult supervision.

[Berry Cool]

3. So, lemme get this straight. Day care center gets to end of day, has one extra baby.

Not picked up by anyone, unaccounted for, don't know what to do with it.

Their solution: lock it up alone in the place, kick off for the night and go home?

And then, when the frantic mother arrives beating the door down to get her kid, the only explanation they have is that the mother didn't sign the baby in?

Um, yeah. Sure. I mean, what are you gonna do. I mean, it's not like they should have tried to find out who the heck's baby it was. They did the best they could: locked it up for safekeeping till the next day and left. She wants the baby, she can always come back during normal business hours. :sarcasm:

[Javaman]

4. "doesn't want to point fingers.", no shit, I bet they don't because

all those fingers will be pointing at the day care.

[Berry Cool]

5. Yeah. If all else failed and they couldn't find contact information related to the baby,

someone from the day care then needed to take the poor tyke home with them and care for it overnight.

If enough time passed with no one claiming the baby, they could then have reported it to police as an abandoned infant, and had things dealt with from there. But locking it up alone in the place...um, not a solution.

[kirby]

6. Do you really think they knew the baby was there?

The story sounds to me like they did not know/forgot the baby was there and did not check all the cribs before they left. It sounds like they relied on a sign-in sheet to be sure all the babies had left rather than looking in the cribs.

I seriously doubt they were like 'Hey look an unclaimed baby, we will lock it up for the night'.

[FLDem09]

7. That shouldn't matter...

Ignorance is no excuse when it comes to the well being of children. By that rationale(mom didn't sign in) that would mean that NO ONE noticed that the baby was in the center ALL DAY long. Thank God the place didn't catch on fire or the baby didn't choke or something. I swear if that was my kid those people who tote one helluva an ASS whoopin'.

[Fleshdancer]

8. Talk about your no win situations

This story sucks for everyone involved. x(