Several daycare workers in Mississippi have found themselves charged with abuse charges after video surfaced of the workers scaring the daycare’s children while wearing Halloween masks.
Monroe County Sheriff Kevin Crook said in a statement that Sierra McCandless, 21; Oci-Anna Kilburn, 28; Jennifer Newman, 25, and Misty Shyenne Mills, 28, face three counts of felony child abuse, while Traci Hutson, 44, faces misdemeanor charges of failure to report abuse by a mandatory reporter and simple assault against a minor.
“It’s just a shame it happened and this is where we’re at. Hopefully, people will learn from it,” Crook told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. “It can tear a community apart. Everybody who was a part of it knew each other in some shape or form. It’s a lot of emotions to deal with, and our job is to cut through those emotions, find the facts and present those facts.”
The question - why? Well, apparently, the workers thought it would be a good way of getting the children to better behave.
“The teachers asked me if I would do it or if they could use (the mask) to get their class to listen or clean up. I’m not a child abuser,” she says in her apology.
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