Texas parents sue day care center for
duct taping child to nap mat
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[August 28, 2014]
By Marice Richter
DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas couple has
filed a lawsuit against the owners of a Fort Worth-area day care center
seeking $1 million damages from the facility for duct-taping their
2-year-old son to a mat because he was unruly at nap time, their lawyer
said on Wednesday.
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Kristi and Brad Galbraith are suing for fraud and negligence in
the incident that occurred in June at the Heart2Heart Montessori
Academy in Willow Park.
"This is a parent's worst nightmare," Dallas attorney Larry Rasansky
said.
"Parents take a leap of faith to entrust their children to the care
of someone else, and it is extremely upsetting when something like
this happens to toddlers, who are too young to speak up for
themselves."
The day care center was not immediately available for comment but
has said it is cooperating with authorities.
"The staff and I have the best interest of the children and parents
as our highest priority," it said in a statement in June.
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The couple claims in the suit it was their son who was in a widely
circulated photograph that gained national media attention, which
showed a child wrapped in a blanket and bound to a nap mat with
silver duct tape.
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The photo was taken by a former employee, who sent it to the
Galbraiths and told them that their son was one of two children
duct-taped to mats that day, according to the suit.
(Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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