'Where bad kids go': Moms sue day care owner after kids had night terrors from being locked in a 'dark room' as punishment

A radical of Arizona mothers is suing a day care proprietor aft they assertion she abused their children, including locking them successful a "dark room" arsenic punishment.

Local CBS affiliate KPHO spoke with 3 of the mothers who sued an unnamed time attraction proprietor who runs a home-based concern successful Coolidge, a metropolis astir 55 miles southeast of Phoenix. The mothers of 19 children filed the suit successful Arizona's Maricopa County, claiming that the pistillate punished the children she watched by locking them successful a acheronian country and threatening them. Three of those mothers — Sara MacDowell, Veronica Zarate, and Christiana Klosterboer — spoke to KPHO astir their children's behaviour aft they came location from the time care.

MacDowell, whose 5 children spent clip astatine the time care, told KPHO that aft a fewer months of utilizing the service, 1 of her daughters "would person unthinkable nighttime terrors, would aftermath up successful the mediate of the nighttime screaming." Her different children were abruptly "afraid to beryllium near alone," were frightened of the dark, and said, "The monsters are going to get me."

The upsetting absorption prompted her to fell a portion recorder successful her son's car seat, which captured astir an hr of speech betwixt the time attraction proprietor and her children. The time attraction proprietor tin beryllium heard connected that audio, which was shared with KPHO, saying, "Okay, you spell successful the acheronian room," adding, "[B]ecause that's wherever atrocious kids go."

The children tin beryllium heard screaming, "Let maine out!"

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Zarate and Klosterboer's children besides reportedly told their mothers astir the "dark room."

Law&Crime reached retired to the attorneys representing the mothers but did not person a response. KPHO reported that the time attraction proprietor is not presently facing transgression charges, but 1 of the mothers filed a constabulary study against her.