Daycare That Left Kids Unattended in Van Shut Down

This is not a good week for daycares in the Houston area (or at least the kids in daycare). On Tuesday we told you about a pastor's wife that tied the kids to chairs. Today, we find out that a daycare we told you about last week is getting shut down.

According to the Chronicle, Dear's Day Car Center, which is less dear after this week, was shut down by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for routine things like leaving 29 children unattended in a van, a van that was supposed to only hold 15 children, in a Houston parking lot. This is on top of failing to do criminal background checks on employees, failing to maintain a child-to-caregiver ratio of no more than 13 children per adult and for allowing infants to sleep on their backs.

Just to make things even more interesting, some guy named Barry Baul is involved, but the owner of the facility, Keri Lloyd, doesn't want to talk about that person. Lloyd claims that she is voluntarily shutting down the facility, but the state disagrees: "She said she is voluntarily closing down. It's not a voluntary decision. We are closing her down."

That's right, the state doesn't want you to forget that maybe they'll let you off with a warning the first six or seven times... but that eighth time you're in for it.