{"id":362549,"date":"2026-08-04T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:10:08","slug":"lincoln-marti-daycare-teacher-accused-of-grabbing-2-year-old-by-neck-shaking-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362549\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Marti daycare teacher accused of grabbing 2-year-old by neck, shaking him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A teacher at a Lincoln Marti daycare center in southwest Miami-Dade was arrested Monday on accusations that she grabbed a 2-year-old boy by his neck and shook him, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/04\/docente-de-la-guarderia-lincoln-marti-es-acusada-de-tomar-a-un-nino-de-dos-anos-por-el-cuello-y-sacudirlo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/04\/docente-de-la-guarderia-lincoln-marti-es-acusada-de-tomar-a-un-nino-de-dos-anos-por-el-cuello-y-sacudirlo\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, the incident happened at about 10 a.m. Monday at the Lincoln Marti at 15198 SW 288th St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the victim was misbehaving in the classroom, at which time his teacher, Beatriz Gomez-Hurtado, 53, of Homestead, \u201creprimanded\u201d him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the toddler then laid on the ground while having a \u201ctemper tantrum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Gomez-Hurtado then lifted the victim up by his wrist, stood him upright and then placed both of her hands around his neck and face while shaking him back and forth a few times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gomez-Hurtado then placed the toddler in a timeout chair, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the young boy sustained a mark on the right side of his neck and bruising on his left cheek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Gomez-Hurtado invoked her right to remain silent and was arrested on a charge of child abuse without great bodily harm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday morning, the Cuban national was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is not the first time a Lincoln Marti school has made headlines in South Florida for disturbing allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2016, Clara Quintero-Gonzalez, who worked at a Lincoln Marti school in Miami Beach, was arrested after police said she physically abused multiple students. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 2022, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2022\/10\/17\/family-suing-miami-dade-daycare-after-death-of-9-month-old-boy\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2022\/10\/17\/family-suing-miami-dade-daycare-after-death-of-9-month-old-boy\/\"> family of 9-month-old Tayvon Tomlin sued Lincoln Marti Schools<\/a> after the baby was found unresponsive at a Lincoln Marti daycare in Homestead and was pronounced dead at a hospital. The family claimed the center was inadequately staffed and that workers lacked proper training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another teacher, Merlin Gutierrez, who was captured on surveillance video abusing a 2-year-old girl at a Lincoln Marti, located at 22165 Southwest 112th Avenue, took a plea deal last year in which she was sentenced to five years of reporting probation. As part of the deal, she is not considered a convicted felon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has reached out to Lincoln Marti Schools for comment on the latest case and is awaiting a response. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A teacher at a Lincoln Marti daycare center in southwest Miami-Dade was arrested Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-362549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}