A local daycare and its administrators are facing a lawsuit claiming a toddler was physically assaulted while in their care and, despite allegedly knowing about the incident, they failed to report the assault to the proper authorities.
The lawsuit, filed in Hamilton County Circuit Court on Sept. 23, states the 1-year-old child’s mother received a phone call on Nov. 13, 2018 from someone who said she was an employee of Kids Rock, Inc. The person said she had learned that another employee assaulted the child on or about Nov. 7, 2018.
The mother then called the daycare director, Rachel Stoval, who told her that an employee, identified only as “Maggie” had “done ‘something’ to the child,” the lawsuit states. She told the mother that Maggie had “picked up the child by an arm and ‘put’ the child in a cot.”
Maggie’s actions “didn’t sit well with me,” Stoval added, according to the lawsuit.
The child’s mother, father and grandfather then called police to meet them at the daycare.