Eva Cr\u00e8che Daycare Center, once a popular day care, is now the center of abuse allegations.<\/p>\n
A former employee is facing criminal charges for endangering the welfare of two children, leaving parents mortified by what was caught on camera inside the facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like the creme de la creme of the neighborhood,\u201d said Katie, a parent in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. \u201cSo it was absolutely horrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katie is one of many parents who were once on the waiting list at Eva Cr\u00e8che Daycare Center\u2014a place that once came highly recommended, but now has its doors closed.<\/p>\n
She says the news makes her and her husband nervous about sending their almost 2-year-old son to any day care.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt absolutely made us more nervous to send him anywhere before he can just report back what happened during his day,\u201d said Katie.<\/p>\n
According to a criminal complaint, back in October, 24-year-old Lindsay Olibrice was caught on camera forcibly carrying a 1-year-old baby from one playpen to another while his legs were caught in one.<\/p>\n
In another incident that same day, she\u2019s accused of swiping another 1-year-old with a broom to the face.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would hit the kids with phones,\u201d said Anaiah Johnson, a former employee at the day care. \u201cBooks, pillows. If she didn\u2019t feel like feeding the kids, she would throw out their food and tell the parents, \u2018Oh yeah, they finished all of it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson was the one to report the alleged abuse to authorities and share videos of what was happening with parents. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know that I can\u2019t just go to them and be like, \u2018Oh, yeah, this is happening,\u2019 without having actual proof,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cIf I wanted something to get done about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the story continues to develop, questions about who else may bear some of the responsibility for what happened continue to be raised. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe have day care that has some oversight with cameras,\u201d said Jonathan McKinney, a father whose children attend the day care next door to Eva Cr\u00e8che. \u201cAlso, two-or-three-person accountability. I mean, there are strategies for lessening the exposure of a child to a single bad actor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olibrice was released by a judge, but she\u2019s expected back in court in April.<\/p>\n
As for the owner of the day care and other employees, who Johnson says knew what was happening, no other charges have been filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eva Cr\u00e8che Daycare Center, once a popular day care, is now the center of abuse allegations. A former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9096,9095,98,100,99,8301,325,61649,9,24,63,7127],"class_list":{"0":"post-147012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-abuse-allegations","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-child-abuse","14":"tag-day-care","15":"tag-day-care-center","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-prospect-lefferts-gardens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}