Few things in life can compare to the delight of raising your own child. Parents take extraordinary measures to protect and care for their priceless children. When they drop off their kids at school, they anticipate that they will be secure. But are schools legally responsible for the safety of the students entrusted to them?
Every parent of a child is aware of how difficult it is to keep their child safe at home, but sending the child off to school may provide an entirely new set of difficulties, some people worry that their child may be harassed or bullied, while others worry that their child’s right to free speech or privacy will be violated. Parents also worry about their children’s overall well-being while they are at school, including whether the institution has adequate safety precautions in place or a fair code of conduct.
Whatever the circumstance, the majority of parents would concur that their main objective in enrolling their children in school is to provide them with the chance to learn in a secure, tranquil, and protected setting.
As students have a right to attend schools that are safe and conducive to learning and achievement, however, schools are experiencing increasingly frequent incidents that are having a devastating, long-term impact on students, parents, and the community.
As a result of the Valparaiso daycare’s failure to keep kids safe and secure, parents are now trying to get their kids as far away from the institution as they can, because in a horrifying incident when four little boys at the same daycare center broke their legs on the same day, Police opened an investigation.
And it leads to only one being responsible for the horrendous abuse. Four children in Christina Marie Curtis‘s care, aged between 13 and 21 months, sustained broken legs when she was employed at the Kids Discovery Learning Center in Valparaiso.
An 18-month-old boy is allegedly seen on surveillance footage from the daycare center on May 21, 2019, being dropped feet first into a wagon by Curtis, according to an arrest complaint. Later, the boy reportedly had problems standing and walking around.
Within the same week, leg fractures also occurred in the other three kids. Investigators found that all four of the children’s injuries most likely happened while they were in Curtis’ custody.
An arrest report says all of the kids arrived at school able to stand and walk and all left at the end of the day unable to do either.
It was noticed first by the parents when their visit to the doctor revealed the obvious fact that these children had gotten their legs broken while being watched by Curtis.
When parents came back to pick the babies up, they notice that they could not stand properly and be unable to walk.
Curtis also purposefully ignored the parents’ special requests, when a mom, Terika Graham asked Curtis not to let her daughter play outside that day because he had a rash. When she picked him up later that day, he was covered in dirt and had a broken leg. Curtis only acted in a way that endangered the lives of these babies.
The mom said, “When I picked him up, he had dirt all in his hair. I don’t know if they let him crawl around out there or what. It took the daycare three days to give me any kind of explanation.”
During the day of maltreatment, Graham’s infant sustained a hairline fracture. But he is getting better.
In the investigation, Curtis denied knowing how the injuries happened and thought they might have happened at home or in the playground because she had seen a number of children fall from playground cars or other equipment inside.
Police said they are unsure as to whether the injuries were purposefully caused. However, two months later they arrested center employee Christina Marie Curtis and charged her with four felony counts of neglect of a child that resulted in great bodily harm.
Curtis was booked into the Okaloosa County Jail on July 20th, 2021, and posted a $4,000 bond the next day.
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