{"id":8615,"date":"2025-10-17T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:08:09","slug":"hialeah-daycare-director-arrested-for-allegedly-slapping-3-year-old-while-changing-diaper-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8615\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah daycare director arrested for allegedly slapping 3-year-old while changing diaper \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hialeah daycare director was arrested after she allegedly struck a 3-year-old while changing his diaper, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Iriarte Alcala, 52, was arrested Thursday on a charge of child abuse with no great bodily harm, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the child&#8217;s mother reported that when he was picked up by his grandmother on Oct. 10, she noticed a handprint marking on his left thigh area.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101725-Rosa-Iriarte-Alcala.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Rosa Iriarte Alcala\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Iriarte Alcala<\/p>\n<p>The mother reported it to the daycare owner, who told the mother she reviewed surveillance footage and it showed Alcala striking the boy while changing his diaper, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators later reviewed the video and confirmed it showed Alcala striking the child with an open hand, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the child from that day showed &#8220;visible redness on the left thigh consistent with being struck by an adult hand (outline of two fingers still show printed on the skin),&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Alcala was booked into jail and appeared before a judge on Friday, where she was appointed a public defender and granted pre-trial release with a $5,000 alternate bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hialeah daycare director was arrested after she allegedly struck a 3-year-old while changing his diaper, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-8615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","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=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}