Posted on 10/23/2022 3:28:34 AM PDT by Morgana
Five daycare workers in Mississippi are charged with child abuse after a shocking video emerged of one of the workers wearing a frightening Halloween mask to terrify 'bad' children.
The Lil' Blessings Childcare workers - Sierra McCandless, Oci-Anna Kilburn, Shyenne Shelton, Jennifer Newman and Traci Huston - were charged this week.
The horrific video that went viral earlier this month showed several workers scaring multiple toddlers into behaving. One worker in the video can be heard telling the masked monster to avoid certain toddlers who have 'been good,' saying 'don't get her.'
'The County Prosecuting Attorney, and the District Attorney met with the parents of the children involved in the incident at Lil' Blessings Child Care and Learning Center and informed them of the possible criminal charges the law would allow them to pursue,' Monroe County Sheriff Kevin Cook said in a statement.
'Parents were also given an opportunity to share information they had gathered with MCSO Investigators. '
Newman, Shelton, Kilburn and McCandless face three counts of child abuse for participating mayhem and Hutson faces two charges for not reporting the abuse, according to ABC News.
It is unclear how many parents came forward but at least one signed a child abuse affidavit.
Sierra McCandless, also known as CeeCee by the children, was the one behind the Scream-like Halloween mask.
In one of the horrific videos, McCandless was seen grabbing children who were running away in terror as she got inches away from their faces.
McCandless released an apology video earlier this month after the video went viral and said the incident 'wasn't meant to harm anybody' or be 'ill-intentioned.'
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Nobody. It was video. (Pet peevve)
Refrigerators are not "ice boxes"
Magazines are not "clips"
...
You get the idea.
Serial killers in the making.
That’s not sarcasm…..at many levels that is truth!
In my own extended family, the parents are both well paid professionals….
…and their 2 yr old is in daycare…..where she has had 3 ear infections in one month.
That's kind of sad, makes you wonder what kind of parents they are.
Wrong way to discipline children because it uses fear of monsters. But will the agovernment and parents allow ANY disciplining bratty kids nowadays?
LOL, I may be the only guy in America who says, “Thank God for my mother-in-law”. She’s pretty much lived with us since our first was born, and helped us to raise them, since both of us work, and we didn’t have to put them in daycare.
I’m quite shocked that you wouldn’t think this is child abuse. Very much so to scare little children in this manner. Are you against abortion, but once they are here you are okay with thinking it’s not that big of a deal to terrorize them as preschoolers? It’s psychological abuse and it’s damaging. I hope these mutants get taught a good lesson.
Pink slips and prison time will fit nicely.
You beat me to it, qaz.
Both of those “events” are darn scary AND abuse by terror for the children.
Although they didn’t have masks on, the arguing scenes while holding that little baby you can clearly see that kid wasn’t comfortable!! I’m really surprised they got away with that!!
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I grew up in an arguing parents house. I refused to argue with my spouse in the presence of my kids.
If someone induced terror in my kid, or any toddler for that matter,
in my presence , like that
I’d be in jail for a very long time.
These morons need prison time...
This is an example of pure real
Terrorism
parents in Mississippi that are not likely to forget”
AND THE CHILDREN ARE NOT LIKELY TO FORGET, EITHER.
That’s the crime.
bttt!!
You have GOT to be kidding. Have you even seen the video? Have you seen The little girl who was so traumatized she was shaking? Have you seen the little boy who herded his friends into the corner behind a bookshelf and then Stood in front of them? (Hero!) have you seen The little boy sobbing and trying to hide under the table? I cannot imagine, after watching that full video, that you would be okay with that. There is a thing called CPTSD and it causes lasting emotional scarring. What did this group do to those kids when they weren’t on camera? Why did they feel the need to threaten those kids into “being good?” What else was going on in that facility?
but “child abuse”?
Absolutely. I am not at all violent but if that happened to my child someone would get hurt.
Terrifying toddlers which was absolutely done by those pigs, IS child abuse.
It was supposed to be a safe place with people who should be protecting them.
Instead it became a horrible place with them being terrorized.
How did those babies sleep later?
What kind of separation anxiety did they have?
How are they reacting to strangers now?
As a parent, I’d be livid. We would pursue every available opportunity to make those heifers lives miserable.
This sick society we live in wants kids to exposed to all types of vile people and ideas. Not surprised some think this was harmless.
Fake oversized boobs on a grown ass man is way more scary than some Halloween mask.>>>>>>>>>>
No question about that for sure.
I would sooner accidentally see them discretely on a robust lady who is not related to twiggy.
Men wearing them are indeed demonic.
Putting that in front of kids is grooming,,and criminal IMHO.Its a form of sexual assault and sexual abuse.
Sad for the kids, but damn proud of my daughter that she could keep that many tiny tots in line just by showing them a little caring.
I am not one for mollycoddling kids because look where that has gotten us.
But this crosses a line, big time.
You can see that those little ones are terrified and they’re probably going to have nightmares. And even worse to terrorize them while they’re eating. What were those people thinking??
No, there are ways to discipline children and set boundaries, but *this* is definitely not one of them.
She is a blessing!
I sincerely doubt that any of the mothers is climbing a corporate ladder, judging by the appearance of the fat slob caretakers alone. Sadly, the mothers are probably single moms and/or high school grads at best, working low-wage jobs like grocery checkers, or dirty jobs like chicken processing or cleaning.
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