An Iowa tot who was denied service at a daycare due to her tree nut allergy is required to be cared for at that daycare under an Iowa appeals court ruling on Wednesday which declared the youngster’s allergy a disability. The ruling came from a lawsuit filed by Shannon Knudson, the allergy sufferer’s mother, against ... read more »

Child Protective Services were called to the home of an unlicensed home daycare in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after Sheriff Deputies discovered the daycare was operating illegally and keeping small children inside dark closets. Deputies visited the home of Tanya Jones on Dylan Drive while escorting employees of a furniture rental business who were there to repossess unpaid furniture. When deputies entered ... read more »

An elementary school in Salem, Oregon dismissed a 5-year-olds protest when they demanded he get into the car of somebody he didn’t know. It was the the end of the day for youngster Teylor Kobernik, who had just attended his first day of kindergarten. His mom told him to take the bus home but the ... read more »

An American University professor has sparked a debate that has grown beyond the perimeter of the Washington D.C. campus after she brought her sick baby with her on the first day of class and breastfed in front of her students. According to assistant anthropology professor, Adrienne Pine, her daughter woke up with a fever the ... read more »

According to police, three Plum, Pennsylvania, daycare workers are facing charges after repeated instances of abuse towards children at Genesis Childcare Center and failure to report such incidents. On Monday, police arrested Eileen Marie Andrews, 44, of Verona, and charged her with four counts of child endangerment and two counts of simple assault. Terry Lynn ... read more »

The Beary Patch Daycare in Mexia, Central Texas, has been shut down after police and Secret Service agents stormed the home daycare after receiving a federal search warrant and seized bags of child pornography. According to KXXV News Channel 25, authorities also removed three computers, external hard drives, and several discs from the home daycare on ... read more »

A teacher at a Kinder-Care daycare facility in Silverdale, Washington, attempted to remove a Chuck E. Cheese Tattoo from 5-year-old Silas Gholston’s face for a class portrait.  However, according to daycare officials and the boy’s mother, Heidi Dietrich, the teacher “improperly used a cleaning product” on the boy’s right cheek, which caused a large burn. ... read more »

Little 2-month-old Levi Haggard died last July, after his caretaker laid him down for a nap on his stomach in her queen sized bed, surrounded by pillows. Cherie Kohenskey, 39, of Troy, Missouri, pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree child endangerment, and after initially being charged with involuntary manslaughter back in December, was given a suspended ... read more »

Homeland Security agents, working along side the NYPD, arrested Joshua Conde on Thursday on charges that he possessed and distributed child pornography. Conde, 26, worked in a Bronx daycare center as a teacher known as Bronx House for approximately one year, where he worked with children ages 5 through 12, Eyewitness News reports.  According to officials, Conde passed a background ... read more »

Darin Casper, 49, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been arrested and indicted on 150 charges including 146 counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance, three counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, and one count of possessing criminal tools, WKYC NBC 3 reports. Darin’s wife, Rita, had been running ... read more »

On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced Andrew Keith, 29, of Mason, Ohio to 80 years in prison for molesting boys at his mother’s in-home day care and sharing photos he had taken of the abuse over the Internet.  Keith plead guilty to 15 counts of producing child pornography and one count each of transportation and possession of ... read more »

Former daycare teacher Harold Meyers, 44, of 104   Waldorf Ave., Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been charged with two counts each of third-degree sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury arising from allegations he molested two girls at a daycare center where he worked about two years ago.  He was held overnight on $150,000 ... read more »

The death of a 4-month-old girl on Saturday has prompted an investigation into allegations of abuse at an unlicensed daycare facility located in a northwest suburb of Chicago. The infant girl, Anna Belle Chang, of Mount Prospect, Ill, was pronounced dead at 11:44 am on Saturday at the Children’s Memorial Hospital Police arrived at the ... read more »

The Zion Baptist church daycare center on the 1200 block of Kenilworth  Avenue in Northeast Washington, D.C. was closed on Wednesday amid accusations of sexual abuse to a three-year-old boy. On April 10th at 1 p.m. a daycare coordinator witnessed a male employee standing over the sleeping child.  According to a report by My Fox D.C., when ... read more »

Police officers in Chicago are being accused of misusing daycare parking. A daycare in the Chicago Loop pays the city $350 per year for two loading zone parking spots directly in front of it. It would appear that the Chicago officers and other government workers are abusing their privileges to get free parking and nothing ... read more »