Daycare worker punched child

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A daycare worker in Georgia was arrested for child abuse, authorities said, as the father of a toddler under her care shared heartbreaking pictures of the boy with a black eye and swollen face. Yvette Thurston, 54, faces three counts of first-degree child abuse and one of first-degree aggravated battery, WDRW reports. She was taken into custody on Monday following a report of alleged abuse at Little Blessings Child Care in Bainbridge, close to the Florida border.“This is every parent’s worst nightmare and we had to live it and are still living it,” he wrote on social media, describing how Clay and his older brother Wyatt, 3, had started at the daycare facility on Monday.

“We were told another child in Clay’s class did this type of damage with a plastic toy,” he said, before adding that he eventually tracked down video surveillance footage of the incident that showed Thurston attacking his son.

“Nothing we saw was for the faint-hearted, especially happening to such an innocent soul,” he said.

“The severity of the acts of violence to our son has everyone confident that this was not her first time. We trusted this facility to care and love our kids and on their first day that was violated,” he wrote.

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