Inset: Yvette Thurston (City of Bainbridge Public Safety). Background: The Little Blessings Child Care installation astatine the Bainbridge Church of God successful Decatur County, Ga., wherever a 1-year-old lad was allegedly assaulted by time attraction idiosyncratic Yvette Thurston (Google Maps).
A Georgia time attraction idiosyncratic is facing child abuse and aggravated artillery charges for a "horrific" onslaught connected a 1-year-old lad — connected his precise archetypal time — that near him cut, battered and bruised, according to his begetter and cops.
"This is each parents' worst nightmare," wrote Cory Weeks connected Facebook connected Thursday pursuing the alleged beating astatine Little Blessings Child Care successful Bainbridge. "This was his FIRST DAY!!!"
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Police archer section CBS affiliate WCTV that surveillance video shows Yvette Thurston, 54, allegedly assaulting Weeks' son. It's unclear erstwhile the incidental occurred, with Weeks and cops lone revealing that it happened connected the boy's archetypal time of care.
"This was a tragic lawsuit that occurred to an guiltless child," Weeks alleged. "Monday was DAY ONE of our 2 boys … attending Little Blessings (A CHURCH CHILDCARE FACILITY). I volition not spell into details regarding the incidental astatine this time, alternatively I volition let the representation of our babe lad bash the talking."
Weeks has accused Thurston of not lone attacking his son, but besides — on with the day care halfway — of being dishonest erstwhile questioned astir the incident. Attempts by Law&Crime to scope the facility, which is wrong the Bainbridge Church of God successful Decatur County, for remark were unsuccessful Monday.
Weeks said "questioning the incidental was an inconvenience for the idiosyncratic successful custody for the horrible acts she did," arsenic good arsenic for a "pastor" who allegedly helps tally the facility.
"We were told different kid successful [the victim's] people did this benignant of harm with a integrative toy," Weeks said connected Facebook.
"This idiosyncratic is successful custody owed to the grounds done video surveillance that myself," helium alleged. "Nothing we saw was for the faint hearted, particularly happening to specified an guiltless soul."
Thurston faces charges of first-degree aggravated artillery and 3 counts of first-degree kid abuse. She was released connected a $44,000 enslaved implicit the weekend, per WCTV.
"We trusted this installation to attraction and emotion our kids and connected their FIRST DAY that was violated," Weeks seethed. "There volition beryllium much coming from this and we volition marque definite thing is 'swept nether the rug.'"