Several parents are angered by a preschool program in northern Arizona, and they’ve filed a lawsuit against the facility and staff over allegations of child abuse.
The surveillance footage sent to FOX 10 shows a sample size of what happened in the classrooms by a specific teacher’s aide.
Four mothers are coming forward about what happened to their children.
The mothers all sent their kids to Chino Valley Head Start Childcare Center. The program is administered by the Northern Arizona Council of Governments - which serves children from zero to five years old in Apache, Navajo, Coconino and Yavapai counties.
Courtney Silva and Jessica Ouellet describe the red flags they noticed with their children.
"So red flags started coming up in my mind when they would call me probably at least once a week, if not more, telling me he's crying hysterically, saying his stomach hurts or he would have a fever or whatever the reason was, and I'd have to come get him during the day, and he was perfectly fine," Silva said.
Ouellet gives her side.
"I would go and try to wake her up and have her get ready for school. She was refusing and throwing a fit, when previously she was running out the door, excited, and anxious to leave. Then it was just like a switch. She just was fighting, going to school, throwing a fit. She started having bad dreams and, like, nightmares," she said.
Disclaimer: The kids' faces have been blurred and the families of the kids agreed for the footage to be used.
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