Yahoo Autos Florida mom discovers infant son missing after daycare gives him to stranger
This is not the first time the daycare has misplaced a child
A Florida daycare is under fire after giving a 7-month-old baby away to a stranger.
When Trinity McCoggle arrived at the Orient Road Child Development Center on January 25 to pick up her 7-month-old son, Adonis, she was left distraught when told her baby had been accidentally given to someone assumed to be the child’s parent, ABC2 News reports.
McCoggle can be heard on 911 call records screaming and begging for help.
Describing what happened, McCoggle said the daycare worker “went to the back to get him, and when she came back, she said, He’s not here.” The distraught mother said, “What do you mean he is not here?!”
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The Hillsborough County Child Care Licensing Office confirmed a daycare staffer handed the baby over to a stranger without asking for identification. The agency moved to revoke the operating license of the daycare a month after receiving McGoggle’s complaint.
The woman who picked up Adonis reportedly returned him to the daycare within an hour after taking him, where deputies were waiting. The case is now listed as an “…inactive missing person’s report.”
Daycare owner Danice Donaldson released a statement saying:
