Kenya Simmons

R 400.1911 · R 400.1911 Care; supervision; children. (1) A licensee shall ensure appropriate care and supervision of children at all times.

On 10/21/2022, I attempted to contact the City of Flint Police department for coordination of interviews. There was no answer and no option for a voicemail to be left. On 10/21/2022, I interviewed Child A, B and C's mother via telephone. The children have attended the child care home since approximately May 2022 until July 2022, while she was working on second shift working approximately 2:30 PM until 11:30 PM. In August of 2022 she began to work third shift, and she was told that would be a good thing as her son is "bad" and she was losing money on other children's parents not wanting to send their children when her son was present in the home child care. The children were being dropped off around 9:00 PM and then she would pick them up around 8:00-8:15 in the am. The last day children attended was on Tuesday the 18th of October. She was not aware other children attended child care 31d on shift. Last week, unknown which day, possibly Tuesday Child A reported she did not like to go to the day care because a boy was touching her there. Child A begged her to not send her to day care. She does not know the boy's name, but she knows what he looks like. She reported he was touching her butt, and yesterday she reported he touched her private area, and was trying to touch her butt. She did not say where it happened, or where the provider was when it was happening. She did not tell anyone about it, and nobody was around. She admits Child A did not tell her much about it. Her other children did not report any issues at the home. The provider had stopped allowing Child B to attend the daycare due to his behaviors. She was told by the provider she only provides care to children birth to age 12, she does not provide care to children up to age 17. The child who touched child A, is the son of one of the child care staff members who work there. The worker and her son leave the child care home by 10:00 PM or 11:00 PM, and that child never spends the night at the home. The child care staff member is there when she drops off her children. The son is an adopted son, the child care staff member is a black lady, who does not like her. She was referred to the child care home by a co-worker of hers, and that person told her the child care staff members son is 14 years old. Child care staff 7 member 1 is there when she drops her children off, she meets her at the door, and instead of her going inside to drop the kids off, the staff member takes them at the door. She did reach out to the provider who denied it was happening stating she does not condone that type of thing. Child A reports the boy was "throwing hearts" at her, meaning he formed a heart with his hands and made a movement towards Child A with the heart shaped hands. Child A was doing it back to him with it being a "broken heart," as she does not like him. This is what the child care staff member told the provider, but her daughter denies throwing hearts at him, stating again "I do it broken, I don't like him." Child A told her that the boy is always trying to get her to go with him. She feels like the provider has now tried to turn this against her daughter. She did not call the police; she called her primary care doctor who told her to take the child to the hospital. The hospital told her there was "no foul play," but that if it were more than a week since it happened, they would not be able to tell anyway. Her friend who referred her to the daycare, provided the boy's name, and indicated he was adopted. She denies her daughter knows the boy's name, just that he messes with her. On one occasion when she came to get her child from the home, a child care staff member told her, her daughters' pants were off, and they did not know why. It was not so weird to her as her daughter often sleeps with no pants on at home. She did not know that there were other children and boys there at the same time. She is unable to work now as she is afraid to send her child to another daycare. On 10/1/2022, I

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R 400.1904a · R 400.1904a Child care staff member; employment requirements. (3) Prior to contact with children, the individual shall be determined by the department to be eligible to serve as a child care staff member, pursuant to section 5n of the act, MCL 722.115n, and as required by R 400.1925.

The licensee has several child care staff members, 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 who are not cleared on the comprehensive childcare background check, prior to contact with children in care.

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R 400.1910 · R 400.1910 Ratio of personnel to children. (1) The ratio of personnel to children present in the home at any 1 time must be not less than 1 member of the personnel to 6 children. The ratio must include all children in care who are not related to any personnel and any of the following children who are less than 6 years of age: (a) Children of the licensee. (b) Children of a child care staff member or child care assistant. (c) Children related to any member of the household by blood, marriage, or adoption. 17

At the time of initial inspection, there was one child care staff member alone in the day care room, with nine children in care. The licensee and child care staff member 2, were upstairs in their private room, not supervising or providing care for children.

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