All posts tagged "Childcare"

A Black 2-year-old attending a Florida day care was handcuffed and fingerprinted by another student during a “racist” reenactment of Rosa Parks’ arrest, the NAACP said. But the school says handcuffs were not used in the role-play activity, and a photo provided by the school shows a student “detaining” another student, but no handcuffs are visible. McClatchy News has reached out to the NAACP for clarification and is awaiting a response. In letters written on Dec. 12 to the Florida Department of Children and Families and Building Brains Academy in St. Cloud, Florida, the NAACP says a toddler was......

NEW YORK — The devastated dad whose 1-year-old son died suddenly from suspected fentanyl exposure inside a Bronx day care center recalled giving the cheerful little boy a final kiss goodbye before heading off to work. Little Nicholas Feliz-Dominici never made it home, killed at the end of his first week inside the facility where three other kids were sickened Friday — with a New York Police Department sweep uncovering a drug-packaging device inside and Mayor Eric Adams vowing a day later to discover who was responsible for the tragic death. “My heart is broken,” weeping father Otoniel Feliz, 3......

CHICAGO — The bodies of two newborns were found discarded in the city’s Streeterville neighborhood, police said Thursday. A witness told police that they found the bodies of the infant girls inside a bathroom of a child care center in the 400 block of East Ontario Street just before 7 p.m., according to a Chicago Police Department statement. The children’s bodies were found in a garbage bag, according to authorities. The two were pronounced dead at Lurie Children’s Hospital, police said. Authorities released no further details, saying they were conducting a death investigation pending an autop......

Four children are dead and five are hurt — one with serious injuries — after a man carrying an ax-like weapon attacked a day care center in southern Brazil early on Wednesday, authorities said. Three boys and one girl died in the attack: Bernardo Cunha Machado, 5; Bernardo Pabest da Cunha and Enzo Marchesin Barbosa, both 4; and Larissa Maia Told, 7. A local hospital confirmed it treated kids “from 0 to 2 years old,” according to local reports. The assailant, who didn’t seem to have any connection to the school, turned himself in after the attack, local authorities said. The incident happened i......

NEW YORK — Eighteen children were injured Wednesday in a fire that was sparked by a lithium-ion battery at a Queens day care, officials said. The blaze broke out in the basement of the two-story house in Kew Gardens Hills around 2:05 p.m., according to the FDNY. “It was a lot of smoke coming out all of the windows,” said neighbor Adina Landon. The first floor of the house is a day-care facility, police said. “Companies arrived and found heavy fire in the basement,” said FDNY Chief of Operations John Esposito. Firefighters removed 18 children from the house, where one was critically injured. Th......

As a vicious gunman murdered 24 children at a day care in Thailand, one 3-year-old girl slept through the entire massacre. The girl, identified only as Emmy, was found awake and alive Thursday as authorities surveyed the horror at Young Children’s Development Center in Uthai Sawan, the BBC reported. Emmy was scooped up and taken upstairs, her face covered with a blanket to shield her from the devastation. “She had no idea what was happening when she woke up,” her grandfather Somsak Srithong told the BBC. Emmy’s parents heard that all the children at the day care were killed in the massacre, wh......