The boy’s mother is demanding answers after a disturbing video has surfaced showing a Los Angeles daycare worker violently pulling and pinning a 4-year-old boy.
“I was distraught,” said his mother, Breanne Battle. ABC7 on March 14 after seeing a video of her son being roughly handled at Kinder Kids Christian Preschool in downtown Los Angeles.
Surveillance video shows the worker grabbing the son’s arm and pinning both wrists to the ground.
An employee is then seen pulling the boy by his ankles, holding him upside down and dangling him in the air.
“Nobody wants to see their child handled like that,” Battle told the outlet.
The concerned mother said another staff member at the preschool showed her the video, prompting her to contact the owner and meet with him to demand answers about his treatment of her young son.
Ms Battle said she tried to give the dog the “benefit of the doubt” when she went to meet its owner and tried to have a serious “mother-to-mother, woman-to-woman” conversation to find out what happened. . — she said she understands that “things can get out of control.”
However, the dog’s mother said the owner “denies everything and it’s disgusting.”
Battle claims the owner showed her another video that did not show her son being manhandled by employees, believing this was an attempt to cover up the charges. There is.
“The owner/manager showed me footage of when she took him to the front door. At that time, he was giving her a lot of activities, so she thought it was better. I guess they thought it was going to be an angle,” Battle said. Exit.
The mother, who was worried after seeing the owner’s unwillingness to cooperate, said she filed a police report accusing the nursery school of child abuse.
“Well… well, well, well? And she’s shirking responsibility, which makes it very criminal,” Battle explained.
KinderKids Christian Preschool has announced that the employee who was seen on video touching Battle’s 4-year-old son has resigned. ABC7.
The paper has contacted the kindergarten for comment.
But for the mother, the fact that the owner allegedly tried to cover up what happened to her son is enough to continue legal action.
“For that matter, her license needs to be revoked because she shouldn’t be required to care for someone else’s child,” Battle told the outlet.
She then started a lawyer and wants to prevent this from happening to other children attending daycare.
“She needs to go to jail for this,” she said.
