Mor kræver svar og spørgsmål efter video viser hendes 4-årige gabet og dinglede på hovedet på en los angels preschool

Brie’ann Battle did not hear about the incident from Kinder Kids Christian Preschool. She saw it on a classroom camera, about a month late. The March 14, 2024, footage from the Mid-Wilshire school at 5353 West Pico Boulevard shows a worker grabbing her 4-year-old son by the arms, pinning him to the floor while other children watch, then lifting him by the ankles and dangling him upside down. Battle said her son later bruised. She pulled him out of a school he had attended since he was about 18 months old.

“No parent should ever have to witness their child being treated with such violence,” she said. Local reporting, relying on Battle, identified the person in the video as Artea Kirkland, the daycare’s owner. That is an allegation, not a criminal finding. Battle said she asked for a straight conversation and got a denial. She alleged Kirkland played a different clip — the boy outside, “being active” — to rewrite what the camera had already shown. ABC7 blev konfronteret.

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Battle filed a child-abuse report with the Los Angeles Police Department. A resignation, she said, was not enough. “The owner’s attempt to cover this up makes it a criminal act.” She asked the state to pull the facility’s license. With a lawyer, she sued in Los Angeles County Superior Court, for herself and as guardian ad litem for her son, naming Kinder Kids Christian Child Development Center and Artea Kirkland. The complaint lists assault and battery, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and Ralph Act claims. She sought more than $100,000 in damages, medical costs, and punitive damages. LAPD said its investigation was open. No criminal charges had been announced.

Daycares, der håndterer børn som inventar, dukker op i AEGIS Alliances filer ved siden af institutioner, der gjorde det samme i årtier. Se New Orleans archdiocese 's Præst-misbrug coverup, $305 millioner forlig, og ærkebiskoppens exit, og den ældre rapport om Hollywood er åben hemmelighed. Mere af dette beat er i Kriminalitet Nyheder.