Florida daycare director accused of dropping, battering child
A Florida daycare worker is facing child abuse charges after video surfaced showing the worker dropping and battering a child with stuffed animals.
A Florida daycare worker is facing child abuse charges after video surfaced showing the worker dropping and battering a child with stuffed animals.
According to police, the video, which was taken by another daycare worker, shows Children’s Palace Learning Center director Kimberly Reid repeatedly hitting a 4-year-old boy with stuffed animals and even dropping him.
“It looks like he was laying on a children’s mat, like for naptime, and she walked over and was striking him several times with stuffed animals,” said Clermont Police Officer Erin Razo, “and at one point in the video, you see her actually pick the child up and drop him from about two to three feed off the ground.”
The daycare worker said that this was not the first time such abuse had happened at the daycare and that Reid had been rough on the kids for three weeks.
Court records indicate that Reid was on community supervision and probation after convictions on charges of grand theft, welfare fraud, and organized fraud.  A call made to the Department of Children and Families, which is supposed to regulate daycares, was not immediately returned when Fox 23 called to ask why a convicted felon was allowed to run a daycare.
