It's a working parent's worst nightmare -- your child being beaten during daycare. Though this case is particularly disturbing because it wasn't a worker terrorizing the toddlers, but actually a 9-year-old abuser.
Parents in Mississippi were horrified when they saw the video of one boy beating up the smaller kids, including biting and punching an 11-month-old.
You won't believe your eyes as this brute drop-kicks a toddler in the back, picks her up, and then does it again. All the while, a daycare worker is just a few feet away with her back turned. I would literally go ballistic if this happened to my child. When the kids cry and adults come to check things out, the bully pretends to be concerned too, patting his victim on the back.
Understandably, parents with kids at the Kiddie City Child Care Center in Vicksburg are furious. I certainly would be. Well, a judge's ruling may only make them angrier. Because the attacker is under 12, he doesn't face any criminal charges. Police say punishment will likely be some sort of rehab. I won't deny this kid needs help, but a part of me wishes they could just lock him up for awhile too. The daycare worker was arrested and charged with two counts of contributing to the neglect of a minor.
This video should make every parent rethink putting their kid in a mixed-aged daycare. I used to think the main problem would be a toddler feeling left out as the older kids ran around together. Or perhaps a younger child getting hurt as they tried to keep up with the bigger kids. Little did I know, that should be the least of my concerns. If there is not enough room to keep the age groups separated at all times, then it's probably not the safest environment.
These toddlers could have been badly hurt. God knows what emotional scars they already carry from being tortured yet unable to tell anyone what was happening to them. It makes me angry at the clueless daycare worker, this cruel bully, and his parents. Clearly something is very wrong in his life to make him want to hurt other children like that.
See the vicious beating here:
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This is so sad! No child should be subject to this kind of abuse! The child who did these things needs so intense therapy, and his home life may need to be checked into. For a childto behave this violently something is wrong! The daycare worker should have been charged, she paid no attention to these child. The older child SHOULD NOT be with babies with only 1 worker available. I was blessed in that my mother was my daycare provider!
First off the kid does deserve punishment and I do not care what you have to say but it is ALOT different if its brother and sister DUH! And even if it was he is 9 years old and that baby was 11 months! If it were my kid and he did that to his 11 MONTH OLD sister he would get a BIG whooping! So quit trying to defend this 9 YEAR OLD drop kicking little girls, punching 11 MONTH OLD (not even a year old and getting beat up by some idiot 9 year old) and SHUT UP! he deserves punishment and if your defending him then you must think it would be ok if your child did it!
I have taught in an early childhood school for over 20 years. While our ages aretoddler through pre-K, we also at one time had some older children during summer sessions and in afterschool care. In my experience, a situation such as this is not the fault of mixed ages, but the fault of the adults in the room. I would also like to add that while punishing the 9 year old would satisfy the sense of outrage felt by the writer, it would do nothing to address the real problem here. Any child who shows this amount of aggression will not be cured by punishment. On the contrary, I believe it would only reinforce his behavior. He needs competent, compassionate, hands-on intervention.
I will NOT EVER put my kids in daycare or in the care of a professional babysitter. Too many articles of children dying and I refuse to ba one of those parents who "thought it would be okay". I will watch my kids and people who I hand choose may watch my kids and no one else.
Those poor poor kids, that was awful to watch.
Wow. Just wow. This is disgusting. This boy needs to be watched very closely because this is how serial killers start out. Harming defenseless animals and small children. This boy is extremely disturbed and I hope he gets some serious therapy. I have to tell myself that he has probably been severly abused or neglected in his own life to have any sympathy for him.. I don't care what age he is, he should know better. I shutter to think what else he has done that hasn't been caught on camera.