DETROIT – Detroit police are investigating an incident at Sha Sha’s Kiddy Korner, a childcare center on the city’s east side, after a mom says her 1-year-old was bitten and bruised inside the center in March.
Police say they are not investigating the incident as abuse.
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On March 24, around 2:30 p.m. mom Kamri Bonney got a call from the center, which is at the corner of East Grand Boulevard and Mack. The center told her there had been a “minor incident” involving her 1-year-old Kamiri Barner.
“In a complete, I can’t hear anything, I can’t see anything, my first instinct is to call her dad and get her to the hospital,” Bonney said.
That’s exactly what she did. Inside the hospital room, she realized how bad the injuries were.
“When I got her to Children’s, she had bruises everywhere, bites everywhere, all over her body,” she said.
Bonney said there were wounds on her daughter’s scalp, too.
Her daughter had to go see an orthopedic specialist because doctors were so concerned about her leg, thinking the injuries could impact her walking.
Even today, although she’s recovering, she is still on antibiotics because her hand wounds got infected.
“A parent should be able to go to work or handle their business,” Bonney said. “You are getting paid to watch my child, and you let anything happen to her … You betrayed me and you hurt me and nobody should trust their kids going there.”
Bonney reported it to Detroit police.
DPD tells Local 4 they are investigating, but “not as an abuse.”
Local 4 called the care center today, too. They say they do not have any comment.
According to the incident report from the child care center, two children tried to take a toy out of her hands when this happened. The report says Kamiri had a “couple of scratch marks on her hand and on the back of her finger.”
Bonney said she plans to take legal action.
“We don’t know what the employee-to-child ratio was; they hadn’t even explained the incident appropriately to this mother,” her attorney, Tatanisha Reed, who works with Michael Fortner at Spectrum Legal, said.
Local 4 also reached out to state officials to ask if they are investigating, but have not heard back.