News tagged with 'Nursing Home and Daycare Abuse'

An infant under the supervision of Florida's now controversial Department of Children and Families (DCF) died Saturday, just days after agency officials were supposed to meet with the baby's family to check on her safety. The news brought more criticism to the troubled department, still facing questions in the case of

Just days after it was revealed that the Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) could not account for nearly 1,000 children under its supervision, newly released documents now indicate the welfare agency's $230 million computer system may be flawed. Known as HomeSafenet, the computer program is designed to tr

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is facing more questions and criticism this week after its announcement that the agency could not account for nearly 1,000 children in its system. In the wake of the now well-known case of Rilya Wilson, the 5-year-old foster child who was missing for over a year be

Florida's child welfare agency recently settled a lawsuit filed by six foster children who were physically and sexually abused by their adoptive parents. The lawsuit alleged that workers with the Department of Children & Families wrongly placed the siblings with Frank and Jackie Lynch, who had a history of child abuse

The mother of a 2-year-old girl who died last August in Florida when she was accidentally left alone in a day-care center van has reached a settlement with the facility's insurance carrier. Guideone Insurance Co., which handles policies for the Abundant Life Academy of Learning, will pay Tekela Harris-Carter $1.5 mill

A 16-month-old infant died yesterday after he was left alone in a closed day care van for several hours. Shawana Stacey of Lotta Lovin Day Care Center in Tampa picked up the baby and several other children around 7:30 a.m., but mistakenly left the 16-month-old in the van when the group returned to the day care center.

A two-year-old Florida girl died as a result of a daycare worker's failure to count the children under her care. Gail Besemer forgot to count heads when her Abundant Life Academy of Learning van unloaded the students. Two-year-old Zaniyah Hinson was left inside the sweltering van. Zaniyah went undiscovered until her

Scrutiny of the Montgomery Family Day Care Home in Lakeland, Florida continues following the death of a 2-month-old girl. Kourtney Schiel died at the day care center on August 4, 2000. Investigators determined that Kourtney died on her stomach in her crib at least two hours before her grandmother came to pick her up

A recent Danish study reported that children in daycare are twice as likely to be prescribed antibiotics as their stay-at-home counterparts. Parents of children who attend daycare are concerned about staying home from work to care for their sick children and, therefore, are more likely to ask for antibiotics to shorte

California is shutting down a group home for mentally troubled children because of alleged sexual abuse of residents by their counselors. However, three other group homes run by the same company, Victor Treatment Centers, will not close despite similar reports of sexual abuse. There are at least nine reports of tee

The results of a federally-funded study were recently announced by the Society for Research in Child Development. The results indicate that the more time children spend in daycare, the more aggressive they are by the time they reach kindergarten. The study included over 1,300 children from many different settings rangi

A study in the April issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine reveals that children in daycare are sick more often than their stay-at-home counterparts. However, the report also indicates that such illnesses do not affect any other areas of child development. The study followed about 1,200 child

A Massachusetts family of a boy duct-taped to a wall in his daycare center is suing the owner of the daycare and its employees. The parents, joined by two other families, are suing the daycare, A Place to Grow, Inc., and its employees because of a pattern of abuse. The families claim that the daycare center exposed th

Pinellas County, Florida is losing quality family daycare providers because of strict local government regulations on the number of children they can care for. Pinellas County has the strictest limitations in the state on family daycare providers, which are private centers run in individual's homes. Recently, abo

A lawsuit filed against a group home for mentally troubled children is in the hands of the jury. The victim is seeking $2.5 million in damages. Nine teenagers claim they were raped and/or molested while residing in one of San Bernadino County's group homes for troubled children. These group facilities are classified