Parents don't often think of child care as newsworthy. We've got our fingers on the pulse of our nation's child care programs, and there is something to report every week. Where there is a story in the news, there's something to learn. As we post stories, we categorize them according to how they relate to the Child Care Aware Parent Network slate of priorities for high quality child care. Follow along with us as we track child care in the news.
In the end, it really came down to the word of a 6-year-old girl against the word of a grown man. A jury in Ramsey County District Court believed the girl and convicted the man, Gene Hegerman, 54, on Friday afternoon of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
The family of a child who died after she was found unconscious while under day care supervision is speaking out for the first time after the toddler’s choking death was ruled accidental. On Friday afternoon, exactly one week after her second birthday, Isabella Estep was pronounced dead after she was transported Friday afternoon from the Woodbridge Day School in Dallas to Baylor Medical Center in Garland.
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