The family had just enrolled their infant daughter at a licensed child-care center in Nacogdoches, in Nacogdoches County. She started at the very end of April 2026, and this was her first week in the center’s care.
According to the family, the day after she started, the mother noticed bite marks on the child’s nose and leg. When she raised it with the daycare, she says the staff knew nothing about it and no incident report had been made. Later that week, the mother, the director, the assistant director, and several teachers met to discuss what was happening; the family says the mother asked for closer watch over the children and was told the classroom has no cameras.
The family reports that the bites did not stop. On the same day as that meeting, the mother says she received messages that the child had been bitten on her shoulder and then inside her lip, and that the child’s lip had swollen. The family states the daycare suggested the marks might be from spiders in the classroom. The mother rejects that explanation, noting there should not be spiders biting children in a daycare room. The mother reported the matter to child-care licensing and took the child to the hospital, where, according to the family, a doctor confirmed the injuries were bites.
The center is a licensed child-care center in Nacogdoches. Texas child-care rules require centers to supervise children at all times, keep adequate staffing, provide a safe environment, and document and report incidents and injuries. Those are the protections meant to keep an infant from being bitten repeatedly without anyone knowing how. A pattern of bites on a baby, across her nose, leg, shoulder, and lip, in a single week is not something attentive supervision lets happen unnoticed.
We are working to obtain and preserve the center’s records for this child and classroom: its staffing and supervision logs, any incident or injury documentation, its policies for watching and reporting, and the licensing file. A parent should be able to trust that a daycare will watch their infant closely enough to know what is happening to her. When a baby keeps coming home bitten, “we don’t know” and “maybe spiders” are not acceptable answers.
We represent the family and are investigating what happened to their daughter at a licensed child-care center in Nacogdoches. We are pressing the center to preserve and produce its records, its incident and injury documentation, and its staffing and supervision information, and we are coordinating with the child-care licensing process the family has already begun.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to care for their infant, let her be bitten over and over in her first week, and have no record and no explanation. We intend to find out how this happened and to hold this center accountable.
We represent the family and are investigating what happened to their daughter at a licensed child-care center in Nacogdoches. We are pressing the center to preserve and produce its records, its incident and injury documentation, and its staffing and supervision information, and we are coordinating with the child-care licensing process the family has already begun.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to care for their infant, let her be bitten over and over in her first week, and have no record and no explanation. We intend to find out how this happened and to hold this center accountable.
