Delaware daycare workers Tiana Harris, 19,
Estefania Myers, 21, and Lisa Parker, 47 are in hot water this week after being
charged with assault, reckless endangerment, conspiracy and endangering the
welfare of a child after forcing toddlers to fight.
Police were given a cell phone video that
shows two very small children forcibly fighting each other in an altercation
that the women organized. The daycare workers can be heard in the background
reminding the children of the rules of, “no pinching, only punching” after one
of the boys had pinched the other. Sadly, one of the boys tried to run, but was
pushed back into the fight by one of the daycare teachers.
According to Dover Police Captain Time
stump, the boys were not permanently injured, but they did hurt each other.
After arresting the daycare workers Monday, other parents at the center were
notified about the possible repeated incidences of forced fighting in the
daycare. Though the administrative staff of the daycare was allegedly ignorant
about the incidence, the daycare’s business license has been suspended.
At the time of the video’s recording, there
were several other children in the room who were forced to turn their backs and
wait out the fight. The children were aware of what was happening though, and
police doubt this was the first occurrence of forced altercations in the
daycare.
The three women’s legal counsel has yet to
release a statement and is not accepting requests for comment at this time. The
women will likely never be able to work with the public again, particularly
with children or seniors. Without an excellent legal defense, the women’s
behavior in the video is damning evidence. It’s clear that these women will need
a strong defense in order to avoid hard time and strict punishments, but a case
like this is not impossible to defend. The women are currently released on
$10,000 bails.
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