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  R 400.8125 · R 400.8125 Staff; volunteer; requirements. (1) All staff and volunteers shall provide appropriate care and supervision of children at all times.

  On 9130/20221 received an incident report stated the 04 mom states "no I already told you and its ok I'm needing to leave to work don't have time". Director Gina and I went to go see has other things that have been looked at previously, such as then she said took it off" confused I asked "took what pointed o ofr Then I go to ask. "what appened here in question. responded with `home, outside playing`." The incident report was authored y center director Gina Howe. On 10/5/2022, 1 completed an unannounced on-site inspection at the center. I interviewed the program director Veronica Escamilla-Rodriguez. She stated that Child A's Mother dropped Child A off at the center around 7:45 AM on 9/29/2022 and I met with wi.t hSihe explainedhat on * had een working closely with Child A's Mother an "oer sues. Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez's statement of the conversation Child A's Mother and is the same as what was noted in the above incident report statement. Child A's Mother declined to speak to the program director that was present (Sandra Rodriguez) at the time and went to work. Around 8:45 AM, that same morning, and Ms. Rodriguez reported the conversation with Child A's Mother to her. She d that Child A did not specify which "teacher" had and that Child A refers to all of the staff as "teacher." Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez stated that after being told by , she, along with Gina Howe who they refer to as "center director," went to Child A's classroom to They asked Child A if they . Child A pointed to a Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez stated that she then asked the staff in Child A's classroom if anything had happened to Child A's . The staff in Child A's classroom are Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez stated she only asked the staff that were present the day she was made aware of the incident, which was 9/2912022, so she did not ask about it. On 9/28/2022 the staff in Child A's classroom All other staff stated thewye driMnrec"a pan i!gspeci is happening to Child A's Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez noted that the center does a "health check" upon children entering the classrooms, where they ask the children if they have any "owies" or if they are feeling sick, and this is documented in a log. They also visually look the children over quickly. told her taacou days before the incident, during■health check, s e a asked C wanted a clean pair of socks, becaus socks were "reall dirty." eported that changed Child A's soc s, 3 This was the that was observed y Ms. scams a- o ri uez. then washed i A's javieher a clean pair of socks. reported she was worried Child s I interviewed the . Her statement was consistent with what was stated in the incident report. After she was told what Child A reported by Child A's Mother, she notified it to the program director (Ms. Rodriguez), and she took it from there, noted that Child A's Mother showed her I interviewed child care staff membe . She stated that Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez asked her if an ing a a erred to Child she had reported someone stated thaAt' ssMhee i not know what happened. e reca e ild A teUin a few weeks ago that took Child A's requested that the center's look it. She does not know what the result was of looking at it. She suggested that it was possible that someone Child A's. I interviewed child care staff member ith a W stated that she does not know"an in"gregai~rding Child he recalls a few weeks ago, another staff member, id 's socks Child A's Child A's cieanea uniia €vs sne staiea mat uniia A was gone Trorn the center for a .vhile, and that en came back , and that Her opinion is that Child A was playing outdoors without shoes when was not at the center. She stated that she observed Ms. Escamilla-Rodriguez an s. Howe last week, but they did not specifically ask her about it. noted at she did not know if Child A and Child A. I interviewed child care staff member . She denied that any staff member, including herself, Child A's She explained that Child A has had ongoing issues with . Starting approximately last month, Child A has h

On 9128/2022, Child A _,,, reported to mother ■ that a "teacher

Disposition: Substantiated