In December 2025, the family’s son was enrolled at a licensed child-care center in Cedar Hill. He was in the center’s care like any other day, with his parents trusting the staff to watch the children closely and keep them apart from harm.
According to the petition, while the boy was under the center’s supervision, another child bit him on the face multiple times. The bites were severe: they broke the skin, left a laceration, and caused bruising and bleeding. The petition alleges the injuries were serious enough to require immediate medical attention.
The petition further alleges this was not the first time the boy had been bitten while in the center’s care. A child being bitten on the face badly enough to bleed, more than once, is not something that happens when children are being properly watched, and the petition contends it reflects either too few staff for the number of children, a lack of training, or both.
The center is a licensed Texas child-care provider serving school-age children in a before- and after-school program. Texas child-care rules require centers to supervise children at all times, to keep adequate staffing and proper child-to-caregiver ratios, to provide a safe environment, and to respond to and seek care for injuries. The petition alleges the center failed to provide a safe environment, failed to keep proper watch over the child, failed to maintain adequate staffing, and failed to meet the supervision and safety requirements that apply to it.
What makes this case different is that, according to the petition, the center had already seen this child bitten before. That means the risk was known and foreseeable, and the center had every reason to make sure it did not happen again. We are pursuing the center’s staffing and ratio records, its supervision and incident documentation, its prior reports involving this child, and its training practices, to establish how the same child came to be bitten on the face more than once on its watch.
We represent the family and have filed suit against the center in Dallas County. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to provide a safe environment, the failure to keep proper watch over the child, the failure to maintain adequate staffing, and the failure to seek medical care. We are pressing the center to preserve and produce its staffing records, incident documentation, and any footage, and to account for how this happened more than once.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, let another child bite him in the face badly enough to bleed, and then let it happen again. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
We represent the family and have filed suit against the center in Dallas County. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to provide a safe environment, the failure to keep proper watch over the child, the failure to maintain adequate staffing, and the failure to seek medical care. We are pressing the center to preserve and produce its staffing records, incident documentation, and any footage, and to account for how this happened more than once.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, let another child bite him in the face badly enough to bleed, and then let it happen again. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
