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25 | An unannounced case management investigation was conducted due to a self reported incident. Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Nelson Zuniga met with Susan Garcia, Director.
The report stated that on 3/3/20 approximately 11:05 AM. Director, S. Garcia, was walking out of the adult bathroom, she noticed a child standing in the hallway outside of the children's bathroom; alone. Director stated she did not see any teachers in the vicinity.
During the visit, LPA conducted interviews in person and over the telephone with staff, viewed the area where the incident occurred, and obtained additional documentation from the child's file.
The following is learned from the interviews.
Classroom #4 and #5 rooms and doors to the classroom, face the front of the building, parking lot and city street. Classroom # 4 is the closes room to the bathroom as classroom #5 is farther away. In order for children in rooms #4 and #5 to use the bathroom, the children have to be walked on the sidewalk, located along the front of the building/classrooms, about 50 feet and around the corner where there is an pass way/hall way area, about 20 feet, opened the wrought iron gate and use bathroom. The children bathrooms are located behind this wrought iron gate: On 3/3/2020 at around 11:05 AM; Staff #1(S1) and Staff #2 (S2) had a total of 10 children in care in classroom #4. S1 took 7 children to the bathroom and left 3 children with S2 in the classroom. Children used the bathroom and returned to the classroom. Once in the classroom, S1 realized that Child #1 (C1) was not in the classroom. S1 returned to the bathroom and found child with Director in the pass way/hallway area about 50-60 feet away from the front door of the classroom. Per Director, Director was coming back from across her office opened the door to pass way/hallway area and found C1 alone/unattended. Per director she waited at least a minute before S1 realized that C1 was not in the classroom and was missing. Parents of C1 have not been informed of this incident. (CONTINUE ON LIC809C AND LIC809D) |