Strollerderby

This is why I am a work at home mom!

Until my kid is like 5 and big enough to fight back or tell me WTF goes on in her day, I'm watchin' her!

For parents who use daycare, unannounced visits are a much better source of information than "asking the right questions," because guess what?  Sociopaths tend to know the "right answers."

sick!!

Okay but the picture you have added to this article seems a little.. um... I don't know, it's kind of disrespectful or something. Not that I have any brilliant suggestions.

I couldn't risk the outcome...my ass going to jail for beating the living shit out of this woman...if it happened to my kid, man.

yeah, I thought that too about the picture...

why not have a pic of Suzanna Best with my shoe crushing her face?

maybe 'disrespectful' was a bad choice of words, what I meant is it's in poor taste... it's not like I'm flaming mad about it either, an odd choice is all.

Why do people pick this as an occupation if they have a clear contempt for children. Ugh, sick! And, why isn't this person behind bars for abuse?

I disagree with them, but my guess is the previous commenters felt that when you're discussing inappropriate sexual behavior towards children, to show a diapered bottom might have some uncomfortable associations?

I really cannot believe that the vast majority of parents would ever have to worry about this--how bizarre, and strange!  There are so many wonderful childcare workers. I agree with some of the posters here, if the daycare home or facility allows unannounced visits and the parents pop in every now and again, it shouldn't be a problem.

But as sick as this is, it doesn't seem like the children were actually physically harmed (as in molested). As for the girl that was washed with the garden hose, I've done that with my kids on a hot day and we were out playing--just seemed easier than bringing them inside and drawing a bath. So sometimes the "facts" can be made to look really bad when in fact it's not.

And the photo? Pretty benign if you ask me. No worries.

As a person who has knowledge of this daycare and has been in Suzanna's house, an unannounced visit is impossible. The driveway has sensors that chime inside the house when a car or person walks up the driveway. That is how children are spirited away across the backyard to provider's mothers house. And of course all inappropiate action would cease.

Aggie Jade:

I know what you are talking about. I know she keeps a sensor at the end of the driveway so when someone comes up, she'll hear it in the day care.

Were you a parent that brought your child there?

I agree the photo is benign, just odd...kind of like those Calvin Klein ads from the early 90s with teens posing against wood paneling. Just kind of stark and ugly and a little creepy juxtaposed with the story. Not to mention, it's a bad photo.

Sue, you are nuts. So what if they are not "physically" harmed?!?! The children may very well have sustained latent emotional and psychological damage from this. And as far as kids being hosed down, there are things that parents can do in a family setting that could be fun or silly or whatever that are just inappropriate outside the family. I take a bath with my 20 month old, but I wouldn't expect a caregiver outside of me to do this.

This is just one reason why I am not comfortable leaving my child with anyone other than the playroom at the gym for an hour while I am on the premises until she is old enough to know how to set boundaries and tell me things...and be toilet trained by me exclusively. I think it must be so strange and hard for these little ones to deal with caregivers outside a mom, dad or granny with something as private as potty training when they are just learning about it. I know there are good and reputable child care options out there, but I am glad I don't have to worry about it.

OMG I know what you just said why arn't you on www.hihgdesert.com commenting this... this woman needs to be stopped

Gmoney, I'm not saying it's all good just because they weren't molested. Just that I find some measure of comfort in that, for those children. I would never allow my child in that setting, in fact that is why I never had my children in outside care.

So, relax :)

And as far as things being allowed in "a family setting" that would be deemed inappropriate in any other setting...it's just not true. When someone--anyone--makes an allegation against a family, one suddenly finds that many things that are "innocent" are labeled as "bad." Whatever the state decides.

Yikes! How creepy.

This is really disturbing. I hope this woman will face criminal charges.

If people knew this is what she was doing, why weren't they turning her sorry arse in???  Just because it isn't your child, you don't want to get involved, that's almost as sick as the stuff that was going on there.  You people who knew and said nothing might have just as well been there right next to her.  

You do know that you can call in and report these things without giving your name.  You could have used a pay phone or asked a friend to do it for you so no one would know your voice.  

Really. Really. Sad.

Who cares whether someone would "know your voice"? If I knew about this, I'd take that bitch down myself.

Please don't tell me to relax, either.

I am just feeling really angry about kids and abuse issues having just watched Changeling. But, OK, I am done.

Never to read this horrid page again...

This story is sick, I used to work at a daycare in the same city. There are a lot of questionable things that happen at many daycares even the one I worked at. You have to gaurd your kids no matter what, thank god I quit and now I am a stay at home mom, no one can take care of your kids better than you. Home daycare are ussually over the limit of chilren because that mean more money for the provider, even the one I worked at. Hosing a kids off is insane when there is a nice warm shower to take them to. And hopfully those kids won't be emotionally damaged because hearing remarks about their genatils. I'm hoping the parents just got mad at her and made it all up, things like that happen. We had 1 call about the daycare I used to work at that we hit our kids when NEVER would we, the mom was just upset we had to let her son go. So hopfully that's the case.  

The weirdness of showing a picture of a bottom, albeit diapered, was one of the first things I thought of when reading this article.  Leahsmom was correct in that, "when you're discussing inappropriate sexual behavior towards children, to show a diapered bottom might have some uncomfortable associations?"  

Why don't you go ahead and change it already?