{"id":377169,"date":"2026-10-19T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377169\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:52:13","slug":"niagara-county-daycare-closes-amid-new-york-state-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377169\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara County daycare closes amid New York State investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RANSOMVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 The 7 News I-Team has learned that a Niagara County daycare has suddenly closed amid allegations and investigations by both New York State and the Niagara County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials tell 7 News an active investigation is underway into Jill&#8217;s Play Yard in Ransomville following allegations against a former employee. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Niagara County daycare closes amid New York State investigation<\/p>\n<p>Niagara County daycare closes amid New York State investigation<\/p>\n<p>New York State suspended Jill&#8217;s Play Yard&#8217;s operating license after receiving multiple complaints regarding the care of children at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>In a complaint filed on October 5,  Jill&#8217;s Play Yard was cited for leaving children without competent supervision. A second complaint, filed on October 13, found the daycare in violation for failing to adequately supervise staff responsible for caring for children. No violations were found in the 8 previous inspections earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post over the weekend, the owner of Jill&#8217;s Play Yard said the daycare would be closing its doors after 11 years in business and thanked families for their trust, support and memories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RANSOMVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 The 7 News I-Team has learned that a Niagara County daycare has suddenly closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[138727,9,11,10,49,51,50,138726],"class_list":["post-377169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jills-play-yard","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ransomville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377169","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=377169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}