Woman takes home wrong child from Port Orange day care

News6 ^ | march 15, 2017 | Loren Korn

[Morgana]

PORT ORANGE, Fla. - What happened to one Port Orange mother last Friday afternoon is every parent’s worst nightmare.

"I was seriously wondering if I was ever going to see my kid again," Holly Smith,32, said.

Smith told News 6 she went to pick up her two daughters from Pathways Early Learning Center when she learned that one daughter had already left.

[Morgana]

yet women still insist on using daycare

[Little Pig]

Interesting that the mother who had been given the incorrect child did not notice.

[Morgana]

Was not a mother but mother’s coworker, so she would not have known. She was just picking up a “child”.

[SubMareener]

Apparently the kid didn’t notice either!

[cherry]

what do you mean "women still insist on using daycare"?...its called having to go to work...

maybe you should rephrase your statement to read "Parents still insist on using daycare"....

[BipolarBob]

They all look alike at that age.

/s

[SJSAMPLE]

Who knows? She might have gone home with a better one.

[BipolarBob]

It’s like major sports, if the contract is up the kid chose free agency for better perks.

[SkyDancer]

A mother does not know her own child? Must have been chatting on her cellphone while picking up the wrong kid.

[Morgana]

and being a “mother” is not working? It’s only the most important job ever, beside maybe a “father”.

Yes I know in some places both paychecks are needed but then with some people it’s a “lifestyle” choice. When it’s a lifestyle choice who pays? The child does growing up in a nasty daycare. Every day more horror stores come out on these places. Was it really worth it?

[Morgana]

see post 4

[Mrs. Don-o]

You must have been chatting on the cellphone rather than reading the article. It was the mother’s co-worker who, as authorized by the mother, went to pick up the child.

[Wiser now]

The mother sent a co-worker who had never met the child.

[SkyDancer]

I pick off the headline and the synopsis. Thanks for pointing that out.

[SkyDancer]

Right - asked and answered.

[SkyDancer]

Asked and answered.

[ladyjane]

yet women still insist on using daycare

And a lot of fathers insist on not getting involved in childcare.

[Ellendra]

To make matters worse, Smith said there wasn't any surveillance video recorded of the person who took her child.

"I was told the cameras weren't functioning,” Smith said.

What's the point of having security cameras if they don't work?

[Little Pig]

Generally in these situations, the mother has to explicitly designate anyone else allowed to pick up the child, and they’re supposed to be people who are well known. It’s surprising that the mother would designate someone who can’t recognize the kid.