Posted on 05/29/2017 10:52:54 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Police have arrested a 23-year-old daycare worker accused of assaulting an 8-month-old girl during nap time, which resulted in her death. One police official says in his opinion, the victim was “tortured.”
Leah Walden faces numerous charges, including first and second-degree murder, in the death of Reese Bowman.
“It’s giving me cold chills now to even think about it,” said Tim Barth, who watched first responders arrive.
According to police, Walden is seen on video snatching Bowman by one arm several times, as well as placing pillows over her face.
“As a parent you send your child to daycare because you think it’s going to be safe for them,” Shelley Veasey said.
Police say Bowman died on May 23, after officers were called to the Rocket Tiers Learning Center located on South High Street for a report of a baby not breathing.
“Reese Bowman in my opinion was tortured,” said Col. Stanley Branford of Baltimore Police. “Just evil, what motive could you possibly have to treat a baby that way.”
Responding officers found medics performing CPR on an 8-month-old girl, later identified as Bowman.
“You would never think that someone would do something as evil as that because that’s an 8-month-old baby, innocent, that baby was innocent,” one person said.
Bowman was taken to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Police say there were no obvious signs of “trauma or injuries” to Bowman at that time.
Police immediately began investigating, and spoke with Walden, a caretaker at Rocket Tiers. She told police that she fed Bowman, wrapped her up in a blanket, and placed her in a crib for a nap.
When she returned about 45 minutes later, she said she noticed Bowman was not breathing and contact authorities.
The daycare facility has cameras throughout the center, and investigators began going through the video. The owner of the facility notified police on Wednesday that they had discovered some “disturbing” video.
Police say the video shows Walden putting excessive blankets on Bowman, which covered her head, before snatching Bowman out of the crib by one arm several times, swinging at Bowman as if she were slapping her, then placing pillows over her face.
Walden also walked off camera with Bowman several times, and police say they “can only assume” what Walden may have done off camera.
“It was really sad, they were running back and forth into daycare center. They rushed her as quick as they could into the ambulance. They had her covered up but her little feet were hanging out. It was so sad,” Veasey said.
Police say they do not know why Walden assaulted Bowman, but it appears that Bowman was awake during the assault.
According to police, there have been no previous formal complaints against this daycare facility.
Walden’s bio remained on their website which says “the best part of being a teacher is caring for babies who love me as much as I love them.”
Police say Walden had been working at the daycare for more than 2 years.
The Maryland Department of Education says they put Rocket Tiers under an emergency suspension and a spokesman says they can’t reopen unless a judge allows them to.
According to the Baltimore Sun in July an inspection cited the daycare for six violations. As of September, only four violations were corrected.
Daycare employees are required to undergo criminal background checks. It will take some time to verify whether Walden ever passed hers.
The Bowman Family released the following statement:
“Our family is suffering tremendous pain and wishes to grieve in private. Our hearts are broken. No family should ever have to experience the loss of a child under any circumstances. We await further information from the unfolding investigation.”
Police say Walden did not have a prior record and there doesn’t appear to be other victims but they’re urging parents who are suspicious to call the child abuse center at 443-984-7378.
All I saw were your comments verbally s***ing on a few people who expressed opinions you didn’t like.
Any verbal assault from you (or anyone else) doesn’t frighten me, it just reveals you (or whoever) to be the a**hole that you obviously are.
I wonder if you have pinworms, they can make people very irritable, I’ve read.
My, my, what a big man you are, to use such harsh language.
Or maybe it’s the bath salts talking.
It’s like these inbred dolts are living in the 18th century and they get in their time machine and show up just a bother and harass and site their opinions as fact to those advanced Societies in the future.
I despise these people just as much as I do the Arrogant Pricks on the left
You still haven’t told me where I said what you accuse me of saying. Post up Smart Guy
I prefer a lottery, even if I didn’t win!
It might bring more bucks.
What’s wrong with a 100 person firing squad, only one blank!
Then apparently you missed the accusations at great parents like myself in tens and dozens of millions of other Americans a bean evil parents, neglectful parents, etc etc.
I’m so sick of stupid people on this site
I wonder what "other Americans a bean evil parents" means. With an example like yourself, I am concerned about your children, btw.
Since you think I'm stupid, don't read my comments!
And try raw garlic, a few cloves with each meal, for 2 weeks at least. It is said to cure pinworms, maybe your temper will improve.
Part of the same bloviating group of aholes that come this site and claim there’s no such thing as autism spectrum disorder or Asperger’s Syndrome but insteadal blame it on ‘bad parenting’
I despise you people.
“I despise these people just as much as I do the Arrogant Pricks on the left”
Ditto !
As you may have noticed on an earlier post of mine,I stayed home with my kids-——but that was 50 years ago.
I have delightful,well adjusted,well educated young adult grandchildren-——and all but one were put in daycare while their mothers worked.
My brother and I were latchkey kids back in the 40s——my father died in 1938. No daycare,no adult at all.
There are many modes of childrearing——no one kind is better than any other kind.
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Let’s take it down a notch so it’s simpler for you to understand. What if one parent abandons the family? Is he other parent supposed to quit their job, go on public assistance and live in public housing, and feed their family with food stamps just so their precious little babies don’t have to go to daycare or preschool?
And your answer I assume would be, well you should have probably chosen a better spouse before you got married. Am I correct? Yes I am. I know you people like the back of my hand.
Obviously, Ivanka Trump works outside the home and does not need to. Is she a heartless, disgusting parent?
Yeah I raise two children basically by myself all the while holding dow a full time job, earning a dual master’s degree at night,while having a son with autism and somehow I’m an evil, neglectful, parent with bad parenting skills. The audacity of this bath tub in the front yard crowd kills me.
There’s no point in “discussing” with you. It’s getting boring.
Perhaps what you really need is some anger management counseling.
I’ll look tomorrow.
It’s very weird how rabidly angry some people on this thread are at the very suggestion that it might not be the best thing for tiny children to be raised by hired strangers for 5 days a week.
Classic. We go from me being accused of being a cruel, child abusing parent, by you and a few other clueless nutjobs on this site to me defending myself and proving otherwise, to, “Its obvious we cant have a discussion.”
Stupid people are everywhere.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200704/daycare-raising-baby
Daycare: Raising Baby
Does daycare affect a child's behavior and development? It all depends on the quality of care.
Hara Estroff Marano April 29, 2007
Asking how daycare affects a child's behavior and development is a lot like asking how parenting affects a child's behavior and development. The short answer is, daycare has a variety of measurable effects, many of them positive and some of them negative. And they hinge on the quality of the care, the type of care, and the amount of time spent in it, pretty much as with parenting.
Researchers now know that the nature of daycare arrangements (more than ten hours a week spent in the care of someone other than the mother) has a long reach. The type and quality of care can influence many aspects of development—including memory, language development, school readiness, math and reading achievement, the nature of relationships with parents and teachers, social skills, work habits, and behavioral adjustment—at least through grade school. That's important because in many domains, patterns established by the third grade tend to become highly stable and enduring.
The single best source of information about the effects of childcare is the still-ongoing study begun by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the early 1990s. In 1991, the study enrolled 1,364 children at birth in ten locations around the U.S. and carefully observed and monitored them periodically in whatever care situations their family chose—center-based daycare, daycare in a home, at-home care (including maternal care and nanny care), grandparent care, father care. The study has continued to monitor them through grade school and beyond. Recently, a new wave of results was released and made news because they confirmed and bolstered the validity of an earlier finding that daycare is associated with some negative effects on child behavior. The study found that the more time a child spent in center-based daycare before kindergarten the more likely their sixth grade teacher was to report that the child "gets in many fights," is "disobedient at school," and "argues a lot."
http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/attachment/according-experts/early-day-care-and-infant-mother-attachment-security Early Day Care and Infant-Mother Attachment Security
Jay Belsky, PhD
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom October 2009
Introduction
Whether and how non-maternal child-care experience affects children’s development have been of long-standing interest to parents, policymakers and developmental scholars. Ever since Bowlby1 promulgated attachment theory, thinking derived from it has led some to expect day care, especially when initiated in the earliest years of life, to undermine the security of infant-parent attachment relationships. To some, this was because day care involved the infant’s separation from mother (or other principle caregiver), as separation from the attachment figure was inherently stressful. Separation could also undermine the mother’s own capacity to provide sensitive care, the primary determinant of security, thereby fostering insecurity indirectly (i.e., separation-insensitivity-insecurity). A final reason for anticipating a link between day care and attachment security was because security reflected general emotional well-being, so adverse effects of day care in infancy would manifest themselves as insecure attachment.
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Background
Early research on the link between day care and attachment, often carried out on children 3-5 years of age, provided no compelling evidence to support the claim that day care undermined security.2 But by the mid-1980s, studies carried out on much younger children began to chronicle links between day care and insecurity as measured in the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) (e.g., Barglow, Vaughn & Molitar3). This led Belsky4,5,6 to conclude that infant day care, especially that initiated on a full- or near full-time basis beginning in the first year of life,7 was a “risk factor” in the development of insecure attachment in infancy (and of aggression and disobedience in 3-8 year olds).
This conclusion did not go unchallenged. One criticism was that the apparent influence of early and extensive day care on insecurity was the result of other explanatory factors (e.g., family income) not adequately accounted for in existing research.8 Another was that (unmeasured) poor quality care and not timing and quantity of care was the influential factor.9 And a third was that independent behavior displayed by day care children not particularly stressed by the SSP ̶ due to their familiarity with separation ̶ was misconstrued as avoidant behavior, leading to erroneous assessments of children as insecure-avoidant.10
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Two other reasonably large-sample studies yield results that are at odds with those of the US study. In one investigation of more than 700 Israeli infants, Sagi and associates20 found that “center-care, in and of itself, adversely increased the likelihood of infants developing insecure attachment to their mothers as compared with infants who were either in maternal care, individual nonparental care with a relative, individual nonparental care with a paid caregiver, or family day-care.” Additional results suggested it was “the poor quality of center-care and the high infant-caregiver ratio that accounted for this increased level of attachment insecurity among center-care infants” (see also16).
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jonas-himmelstrand-/effects-of-daycare_b_4220857.html
Why Daycare Can Have a Negative Effect on Your Child
Jonas Himmelstrand
Posted: 11/05/2013 5:39 pm EST Updated: 01/23/2014 6:58 pm EST
It's not likely that Canadians will read Swedish psychiatrist David Eberhard's new book about Swedish parenting. But the headline in the U.K. press says quite a lot: "Sweden's liberal approach to raising children has bred a nation of ill-mannered brats." Dr. Eberhard is asking Swedish parents to reclaim their parental role.
In fact, the Swedish approach to raising children is not best described as "liberal." Rather the Swedish approach is that the state has taken over raising children from parents through the state run daycare system -- a phenomenon I have studied for several years as an educator and a writer.
North Americans are presented with a vision of heavenly perfection in Swedish daycare but in reality, education outcomes are declining, teens are anxiety-ridden and misbehaving and the quality of parenting is suffering.
Ninety-two percent of all 18 month to five year olds are in daycare in Sweden. Universality is a much admired principle and it's true that this has been achieved.
However, the outcomes are otherwise unremarkable, even negative, for psychological health, learning, maternal health and parenting.
Let's start with the ever deteriorating psychological health of Swedish youth, which has become a major concern in Swedish public debate today. A 2006 investigation by the Swedish government reveals that Sweden is worse in this regard when contrasted with 11 comparable European countries since the 1980s.
Other studies show similar results. And if you interview any Swedish school teacher with a few decades of experience they will confirm this.
Examining attachment-based developmental science, it is very hard to deny a possible connection between daycare and these outcomes. This is especially true since Sweden is doing extraordinarily well on a host of other indicators such as equality, low child poverty, education expenditure and a generally high standard of living.
On international educational (PISA) scores, Swedish school results have dropped from a high position a few decades ago to merely average among OECD countries today. A Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study shows that disorder in Swedish classrooms is among the worst among comparable countries.
The government blames the schools but an increasing view among Swedish teachers and school psychologists is that the school problem is, to a great degree, a family problem. Children are simply not sufficiently emotionally nourished to be teachable in school.
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http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/child-care-early-childhood-education-and-care/according-experts/current-research-child-care-effects
Current Research on Child Care Effects
Kathleen McCartney, PhD
February 2007, 2nd ed.
Hours in Child Care
Although the literature is mixed, there is increasing evidence that hours in child care may constitute a risk factor for the development of behaviour problems, including aggression. Some researchers link such a risk with infant child care in particular;5 however, other researchers have failed to replicate this finding, even when using the same data set.6 The NICHD researchers found that the more time children spend in any of a variety of non- maternal care arrangements across the first 4.5 years of life, the more acting-out problem behaviour (ie, aggression and disobedience) and conflict with adults they manifested at 54 months of age and in kindergarten.7 Surprisingly, these findings do not vary as a function of child care quality. It is important to qualify that the effects are relatively small, that most children with extensive child care experience do not have behaviour problems, and that the direction of such effects is not clear ― in other words, parents with more difficult children may enroll their children in child care for more hours. In future work, it will be important to identify the processes through which hours in care may pose a risk. For example, some researchers have speculated that large group sizes (exposure to many peers) may increase the frequency of acting out behaviours that go unnoticed, and therefore uncorrected, by caregivers.
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