Every parent has heard daycare horror stories where innocent children tragically get hurt, abused, or even die at the hands of the daycare workers. However, like most parents, one Utah mom never imagined something like that would ever happen to her children.
In fact, when mom-of-four Danielle Sanchez dropped her soon to be 2-year-old little boy at the West Jordan Child Center like she did every other day, she was concerned with organizing his birthday party and had no idea that he tragically would never make it to his second birthday on September 17th.
While at daycare, 1-year-old Leonardo had crawled underneath a bean bag chair and was trapped underneath when an employee sat down on top of it. “It’s a tragedy, it’s a tragedy what happened,” Sanchez said. “It’s rough because you don’t know when the last time is you are going to hold your child.”
“He was a cute bundle of joy, he brought a lot of love,” Sanchez said about Leonardo, who ultimately suffocated under the chair as the daycare worker sat and read a story to the rest of the class never realizing that Leonardo was not only missing but dying underneath her.
“It just baffles me, makes me wonder, she must not have felt him, she must not have heard him,” Sanchez said. “In my mind: My child is in your care, he suffocated under a bean bag, how does a 2-year-old, not even 2 yet, how does he get stuck under a bean bag? Something happened, I don’t know what.”
The family is seeking legal representation since they believe the accident could have been prevented, but is planning to hold his funeral on his birthday, and is asking guests to bring him a birthday present, which they will donate to patients at the children’s hospital.
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1-Year-Old Suffocates Under Bean Bag Chair At Daycare is an article from: LifeDaily