MESQUITE, Texas (WAND) – Police say a day care owner left children in her care strapped to car seats with binding material around their necks.
Police told NBC News they found children behind closed doors in a master bedroom closet and bathroom at Becky’s Home Child Care in Mesquite, Texas. The lights were off in both places and the children were in car seats.
An arrest warrant says a 6-month-old child’s parent left a camera secretly recording business owner Rebecca Anderson as she fed him an unknown substance with a syringe, grabbed him by the ankle to get him out of a car seat and took him off the ground by pulling a bib around his neck. Officers arrested Anderson on Saturday.
The suspect is charged with nine endangering a child counts. She admitted to giving the children Tylenol “to make her job easier” and keeping the children in the car seats for up to seven hours in the same day, the warrant said.
NBC News says grandmother Keonna Oliver reported having “a bad feeling” about Anderson because she noticed bruises on her 7-month-old son after picking him up, along with severe diaper rash. She said her grandson was sometimes starving when he went home.
Oliver added that Anderson wouldn’t let parents come into her house and limited pick-ups to one parent at a time.
Police say Anderson told them she realized her actions were “outside of acceptable parental behavior” and potentially “could result in death”. She is behind bars with a bond at $225,000.
