In December 2025, the family’s two-year-old son was enrolled at a licensed child-care center in Fort Worth. He was dropped off in the center’s care like any other day.
At some point that day, the toddler walked out of the building alone and without anyone noticing. He crossed the parking lot and went into a nearby multi-lane road during rush hour, where vehicles traveling at speed had to brake suddenly to avoid hitting him. By the time anyone intervened, the child had wandered so far that he was closer to a store across the street than to the daycare. He was found by a passing good Samaritan, who got him out of the road and to safety inside the store.
According to a witness who was present and later testified under oath, the child arrived covered in grass and dirt, and a daycare staff member showed up about fifteen minutes later, took the child, and left without identifying herself or answering questions. Bystanders were concerned enough to call police. The petition alleges the center was entirely unaware a two-year-old had left the facility, and that the boy’s mother was never told by the daycare what had happened. The child suffered scratches to his face from the incident.
The facility is a licensed Texas child-care center serving infants, toddlers, and young children. Texas child-care rules require that children be supervised at all times, that exits be secured, that staffing be adequate, and that parents be notified when something goes wrong. Those are the precise protections meant to keep a two-year-old from ever reaching an exterior door alone, let alone a road. The petition alleges the center failed at each of these.
The independent witness who gave sworn testimony has no connection to the family or the daycare. He described what he saw after the child was pulled from traffic. That account, together with the petition, frames what we are pursuing: the center’s staffing and head-count records, its door-security and supervision policies, and its account of how a toddler left the building unnoticed and why his mother was never told.
We represent the family and have filed suit against the center in Tarrant County. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to supervise, the failure to keep the child inside the facility, and the failure to notify the parent. Discovery is underway, and we have already secured sworn testimony from an independent witness to what happened after the child reached the road.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, let a two-year-old walk into traffic without noticing, and then never tell his mother it happened. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
We represent the family and have filed suit against the center in Tarrant County. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to supervise, the failure to keep the child inside the facility, and the failure to notify the parent. Discovery is underway, and we have already secured sworn testimony from an independent witness to what happened after the child reached the road.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, let a two-year-old walk into traffic without noticing, and then never tell his mother it happened. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
