Killeen day care under investigation for sexual assault of infant:
Reason to Blow Up the world...
Deryk and Kristie Simmons want what most parents want for their child: security, health and happiness.
But all of those may have been jeopardized.
Kristie discovered this when she went to pick up her daughter last week.
"One of the workers said she had to show me something,” Kristie said in reference to her daughter. “She pulled down her diaper -- showed me the bruising on her."
The mother rushed her baby to Darnell Army Medical Center to have the bruises checked. Doctors told the mother the infant had bruising consistent with a sexual assault.
She called her husband Deryk, who was stationed in Iraq.
"You can't get home fast enough when you hear news like this," the baby's father, Deryk said.
Deryk was able to get released from service and got home Tuesday night.
Child Protective Services (CPS) has launched an investigation into Little Blessings.
Although its doors remain open, CPS officials said pending the investigation, closure of the day care is a possibility.
Meanwhile, Killeen police have arrested a suspect, but he has yet to be charged.
News 8 Austin has discovered that Little Blessings day care had two violations in 2007 for failing to run adequate background checks on their employees.
There's a shock. The article doesn't mention it but the victim was only four months old.
One point for the assault, one point for not doing background checks, one point for the place not having been razed yet, and one point for making the victim's father have to come home from Iraq. That's four points.
Nod of Doom to Investigation: Discovery.
