4 month old baby found with pacifier taped in his mouth.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. — A 4-month-old boy was found in a darkened room at a day care center with a pacifier taped into his mouth, the Tennessee Department of Human Services announced Wednesday.
The department responded Tuesday to an anonymous complaint that a caregiver at Noah's Ark Nursery and Preschool in Jefferson City was taping babies' mouths shut.
Upon arrival, an investigator heard muffled whining from the bathroom and found the boy's mouth covered with two pieces of two-inch-wide clear packing tape over a pacifier, department spokeswoman Michelle Mowery Johnson said.
The center was served with a suspension order from DHS and was closed Wednesday. A hearing was set for Thursday before an administrative judge.
Nursery owner Kim Trentham, who has run the daycare since 1993, did not answer repeated calls to the center or her home.
"It's absolutely unbelievable that this would happen," Johnson said. "They have no respect or concern for life. The child could have died."
What a horror. I would be suing everyone if my child went there.
R.I.P. Steven Malcolm Anderson
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Yours,
Wince
Just for the record, I, my wife and my three very underage daughters all wear magic underwear religiously, even though we are not Mormons.
And we live in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota.
And we are so ugly!
Yours,
Wince
Well then, my children are so far safe from becoming the future Mrs. Tim_the_Solider - at least for the next 10+ foreseeable years.