In November 2025, the family’s two-year-old son was enrolled at a licensed child-care center in Hurst. He was dropped off in the center’s care like any other day, with his family trusting the staff to keep track of where a toddler was at all times.
Instead, according to the petition, the center put the two-year-old onto a Dallas Independent School District bus bound for an elementary school in Dallas that was not his school. The toddler rode that bus out of Hurst and into a different city, in a different county, with no one at the daycare aware that he had left the building at all.
The petition alleges the center did not discover the child was gone on its own. The danger came to light only when the daycare’s expected bus failed to pick the child up and a Dallas ISD employee alerted the family that the two-year-old was in the district’s custody at another school. By then, the boy had already been transported across city and county lines. The family alleges they were not timely notified of what had happened.
The daycare is a licensed Texas child-care center serving infants, toddlers, pre-kindergarten, and school-age children. Texas child-care rules require centers to supervise children at all times, keep adequate staffing, provide a safe environment, and meet minimum safety requirements. Those are the protections meant to make it impossible for a two-year-old to be loaded onto a stranger’s bus and driven to another city. The petition alleges the center failed at each of these and failed to keep proper watch over the child.
A center cannot lose track of a toddler so completely that he boards a school bus to a different school and leaves the county before anyone notices. We are pursuing the center’s staffing and head-count records, its supervision and release policies, its account of how a two-year-old came to be on a Dallas ISD bus at all, and how the corporate operators behind the center and its parent company ran and oversaw this location.
We represent the family and have filed suit in Tarrant County against the operators of the center, including its corporate parent. We brought claims for negligence and gross negligence, including the failure to supervise, the failure to keep proper watch over the child, the failure to staff the center adequately, and the failure to provide a safe environment. We are seeking the records that show how a two-year-old left the building on the wrong bus and why no one knew.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, put a two-year-old on a bus to another city, and not even realize he is gone. We intend to hold this center and its operators fully accountable.
We represent the family and have filed suit in Tarrant County against the operators of the center, including its corporate parent. We brought claims for negligence and gross negligence, including the failure to supervise, the failure to keep proper watch over the child, the failure to staff the center adequately, and the failure to provide a safe environment. We are seeking the records that show how a two-year-old left the building on the wrong bus and why no one knew.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, put a two-year-old on a bus to another city, and not even realize he is gone. We intend to hold this center and its operators fully accountable.
