Daycare closes for the night leaving baby inside. Mistaken for a doll.

[Liberal_in_LA]

A Chicago father went to go pickup his 1-year-old daughter at daycare on Monday. But instead, he found a locked building with all the lights shut off and his little girl crying alone inside.

This is one of those situations that fits into the category of every parent's worst nightmare. You come to pick up your baby, and there's no one around and you don't know what happened to your child.

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“I was ringing the bell and no one came to the door, so I called the number and no one answered the phone, so I called again like two more times and I was like, so I kicked the door like two times, then I heard my baby screaming in the background,” Jones said

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The baby, one-year-old Journee, was found crawling around in the back room of the daycare.

“I was glad that she was OK, but I was like real mad, I was mad because how could you leave a baby in a daycare, how could a child go unaccounted for,” Jones said.

However, she told the baby's mother that when workers checked the daycare, they thought her daughter was a doll.---

http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/36299739-story

[Delmette]

1. Wtf!!

How does a licensed daycare not keep track of the children in their care and if or when they have been picked up?

[Journeyman]

2. That's my thought: Easy to mistake a sleeping baby from a distance for a doll . . .

but there's a log book showing when each child arrived, who dropped them off, and when they were picked up and by whom.

At least, that's my experience over the years with both my children and now my grandchildren.

[Delmette]

3. Right!

It has been over 32 years since my youngest was in a big daycare facility, but they would have never left without checking to see if all the childRen had been checked out/picked up.