From Trussville Tribune staff reports
PHENIX CITY – A mother in Phenix City is pressing charges after she allegedly found her son strapped to a car seat and locked inside of a closet at a daycare center, according to WBRC News. The mother, Sydney Zimmerman, said that the closet was without any kind of air-conditioning and might have proven dangerous.
According to the report, Zimmerman came to the daycare early to pick up her 22-month-old son, Slade, when she found him in the closet. She is still searching for the reason why he had been put there.
Zimmerman plans to file charges against Cindy Duman, the daycare owner, and Mary Pruett, who works at the daycare. Zimmerman suspected that this might not have been the first time her son was put inside of a closet there.
Duman and Pruett could be facing charges of child endangerment, child neglect and operating a business without a license.
EDIT: This story was edited to correct the name of the city from “Phenix” to “Phenix City.”
14 Comments
Joanna Nicholas
Phenix City. Not just Phenix.
Lois Grooms
Horrible!
The Trussville Tribune
Thank you for pointing that out. It’s been edited with the correct name.
Anne Snider Steward
If they’ve done this to one baby, how many others?
Michael Nichols
Maggie Alonzo Nichols
Karen Jones
Wow!
Gail Smith Wright
They should be shut down immediately and all the parents who take their children there should file a class action suit, because I would bet that each of the kids has been punished in some similar way at one time or another.
Sharon Brakefield
Be after so stomped her butt in the ground.
Sharon Blackwood Wilbourn
If you can’t handle kids then DON’T become a daycare teacher or become a parent!!!
Pennie Pyle
So sad! This is why parents always should come to see or pick up their children at different times of the day with anyone that keep their children!
Joanna Shepherd Edge
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Barbara Traynor Scott
Poor little guy. Whoever put that baby in the closet needs to be charged with child abuse.
Katie Ann Cleveland
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Dianne Vick
THAT HAPPEN TO MY YOUNGEST TWIN 40 yrs AGO AND HES HAS HAD ISSUES SENT!