In March 2026, the family’s young son was in the care of a licensed child-care center in Beaumont, in Jefferson County. He was outside on the playground when he fell and hit his mouth, busting his lip and chipping a tooth.
The petition alleges the fall happened because the child was not being properly supervised, and it points to caregiver inattention, too few caregivers for the number of children, or both. A young child on a playground needs adults watching closely, because a fall like this one is exactly the kind of foreseeable injury that supervision is meant to prevent.
What the center did next is at the heart of this case. According to the petition, staff did nothing more than wipe the child’s mouth with a cold towel. They did not summon medical care, and they did not tell the parents how serious the injury was. The parents took their son to his dentist, who referred him to a specialist. The specialist concluded the child would need surgery.
The center is a licensed Texas child-care center serving infants, toddlers, and older children. Texas child-care rules require centers to supervise children at all times, maintain safe conditions and adequate staffing, and respond appropriately when a child is injured, including notifying parents and getting medical attention when it’s needed. The petition alleges the center fell short on both ends: it failed to prevent a foreseeable playground fall, and then failed to treat the injury as the emergency it was.
The center’s own incident report records that the child fell and hit his mouth and that staff responded by wiping his mouth with a cold towel. No medical attention was called and no EMS was contacted. We are pursuing the center’s staffing and supervision records, its incident-response and parent-notification policies, and the full account of why a child who needed surgery was sent through the day with nothing more than a cold towel.
We represent the family and have filed suit against the center in Jefferson County. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to provide child-care services in a good and workmanlike manner. We are seeking the records that show how the fall happened and why the center failed to get the child the medical care he plainly needed.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, fail to watch him on the playground, and then treat a surgery-level injury with a cold towel and silence. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
We represent the family and have filed suit against the center in Jefferson County. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to provide child-care services in a good and workmanlike manner. We are seeking the records that show how the fall happened and why the center failed to get the child the medical care he plainly needed.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, fail to watch him on the playground, and then treat a surgery-level injury with a cold towel and silence. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
