Daycare Injuries
Our law firm has helped children and their families recover damages when the child has been injured at a day care facility, foster home or group home. Many of our cases involve assaults that occurred while the child was being care for at one of these facilities, and other cases involve accidents that caused serious injuries to the child.
Below are some of our notes on recent incidents and cases involving injuries to children at Georgia day care facilities, foster homes and group homes.
Day Care Sexual Abuse Case Leads to $3 Million Verdict
In January, a Miami-Dade jury awarded a young girl $3 million after hearing testimony about how she had been sexually abused multiple times while at day care in 2008. According to the victim and her lawyers, the employees of Discovery Day Care negligently failed to supervise the children in their custody, and that negligence ultimately allowed the sexual abuse to occur. When she was five years old, the girl was molested on numerous occasions by the thirteen-year-old son of ...
Day Care Death Leads to $10 Million Award Against Gwinnett County Facility
Following a four-day trial, a jury in Gwinnett County awarded nearly $10 million to the family of a toddler who drowned while at a home-based day care. This is the latest of a number of successful lawsuits in recent years against Georgia day care centers, which have recently been been scrutinized by the Atlanta Journal Constitution amid claims that the state has been lax in regulating the industry and in enforcing penalties. Abiola Bankolemoh’s parents, Kemi Green and Gbolohan Bankolemoh, ...
SIDS deaths and other Injuries at day care centers on the rise in Georgia
As part of a series of articles investigating Georgia’s under-regulated child care industry, the Atlanta Journal Constitution recently featured an examination of several recent cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in Georgia day care centers. Lack of knowledge and training by child care providers, and lax child care regulation enforcement by state authorities, are likely responsible for a number of infant deaths. Fortunately, in response to the AJC’s investigation state authorities claim to be reconsidering their regulation enforcement ...
Day care centers in Georgia have lots of Injuries and little regulation
An Atlanta Journal Constitution investigation into state regulation of Georgia day care centers has uncovered a disturbing lack of oversight. While an astonishing number of children have been severely injured, endangered, and even died while at day care, the state agency charged with monitoring day care providers and punishing those in non-compliance has chosen to impose small fines rather than closing centers with serious safety violations. When the state does take action, it targets small, in-home day care providers for ...
Foster children in Georgia medicated at alarming rate
It is estimated that 52 percent of children in foster care receive mind-altering medications. Georgia, however, has no system in place to review and monitor the distribution of these drugs to foster kids. The result is a system in which children are unnecessarily placed on potentially harmful drugs at an alarming rate. Georgia is not alone. In fact, half of all states have no policy or review board in place to monitor the distribution of dangerous drugs ...
Foster care homes cited for unspeakable abuses across Georgia
In recent years, Georgia has increasingly depended on private agencies to place children in foster homes and group homes. The state has also depended on these private agencies to supervise much of the care the children receive. The result has been appalling. A recent investigation by the Atlanta Journal Constitution revealed that incidents of rape, molestation, assault, neglect, abuse and suicide attempts are regular occurrences at many of the group and foster homes across Georgia. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has ...
Pate & Brody files suit against a children’s group home alleging sexual abuse of foster children
Our firm recently filed suit against Turning Point Homes, a for-profit children’s group home in DeKalb County, for hiring and retaining an employee who molested at least three foster children over a two year period. Our complaint alleges that Turning Point Homes knew of the abuse and sexual exploitation, but failed to take any action which would have prevented future abuses. This case presents allegations of abuse that are similar to issues raised in a recent Atlanta Journal Constitution ...
Georgia lawyer files child abuse lawsuit against day care center in Cobb County
A lawsuit has been filed against the staff and owners of Great Expectations Child Development Center in Kennesaw, Georgia for locking a 4 year old girl in a bathroom and sitting on her. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story. The lawsuit specifically alleges that a teacher locked the girl in a bathroom over a toilet accident, and that the girl was hit in the head with the bathroom door when she tried to exit the bathroom. According to the ...
