Texas father checks in on his two-year-old son's daycare livestream - what he sees sends him rushing to the center and sparks $1 MILLION lawsuit

What a Texas begetter saw erstwhile he decided to cheque successful connected his two-year-old son's daycare past twelvemonth sent him moving to nan facility, and has now sparked a $1million lawsuit. 

The unidentified begetter logged into The Children's Courtyard's livestream connected July 27, 2023 and watched successful scary arsenic a daycare worker smothered his boy successful an effort to support him quiet during nap time, a caller Texas suit claims, according to KVUE.

The worker past allegedly pulled nan covers disconnected and many times slapped nan kid successful nan look and caput erstwhile he did not sleep.

The begetter past rushed to nan installation successful Austin to face unit members astir what he had seen, but nan daycare ne'er reported nan maltreatment to authorities officials aliases rule enforcement, according to nan suit.

Officials astatine nan daycare besides allegedly told nan worried parents nan worker successful mobility would beryllium suspended for 1 time for their actions. 

The child's mother, Alexis Dominguez, is now seeking $1million successful damages for her son's beingness and affectional injuries.

She claims successful nan suit that nan video showed her boy trying to screen his look and caput pinch his hands to artifact nan hits from nan unidentified attraction worker.

But nan repeated slaps caused nan boy to 'rock backmost and distant pinch each blow,' nan suit claims, according to nan Idaho Statesman. 

Dominguez and nan child's begetter yet decided to return their boy retired of nan daycare, and reported nan incident to authorities authorities themselves.

'Clearly The Children's Courtyard did not worth my son's information aliases definitive interest for his well-being,' she said.

'Anyone pinch basal communal consciousness understands that smothering and hitting a kid is wholly unacceptable.'

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission Child-Care Licensing Division and nan Texas Department of Family and Protective Services investigated nan incident, and cited nan daycare for 5 violations.

They recovered that nan daycare had abused nan child, covered his caput pinch a blanket, utilized prohibitive reward to subject nan kid and allowed nan worker successful mobility to enactment astir children for 3 hours aft daycare officials learned of nan abuse, according to authorities records.

Additionally, nan authorities recovered that nan daycare officials did not study nan abuse.

But The Children's Courtyard - a concatenation of daycares passim Texas - is nary alien to controversy.

It has been cited 70 times since 2019, according to authorities records.

Among nan violations are children being near unsupervised, nonaccomplishment to study an incident, a deficiency of competency and a business successful which children were dancing connected tables and taking disconnected their clothes, according to KVUE.

In 2017, Jazmine Torres - an worker of The Children's Courtyard successful Plano, Texas - was caught connected camera slamming an 18-month-old look down connected nan crushed while trying to get him to sleep.

She was later fired from nan facility. 

'The superior information issues astatine The Children's Courtyard are afloat of siren bells and reddish flags,' Dominguez's attorney, Russell Button, said.

'It is clear this daycare does not prioritize kid information based connected nan curen of our client's kid and nan facility's way record.'  

A spokesperson for The Children's Courtyard, however, insisted: 'The wellness and information of nan children we service is our highest priority.'

'While we tin corroborate nan employee(s) successful mobility are nary longer employed astatine The Children's Courtyard, and we consistently pass and partner pinch each applicable regulatory authorities, we cannot remark further connected ongoing litigation,' nan spokesperson continued.

It remains unclear whether nan unidentified worker ever faced criminal charges for nan abuse, reliable nan Austin Police Department said they had nary grounds of a report.