In June 2025, the family’s four-year-old son was enrolled at a licensed child-care center in Sugar Land. He was dropped off in the center’s care, with his mother trusting the staff to keep him safe and supervised.
According to the petition, while the boy was in the center’s care he was injured in connection with the conduct of a caregiver responsible for his classroom. The petition alleges the center failed to properly supervise the child and his classroom, failed to use appropriate methods of discipline, and failed to keep adequately trained staff.
The petition further alleges that the center never told the boy’s mother that he had been injured, never reported the incident to Texas child-care licensing, and continued to employ the caregiver responsible for the classroom. A parent should not have to learn through her own efforts that something happened to her child at daycare.
The center 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, to use only appropriate methods of discipline, to keep adequate and properly trained staff, to notify parents promptly when a child is injured, and to report serious incidents to the state. Those are the precise protections a four-year-old depends on. The petition alleges the center failed at these.
Because this is an ongoing matter, we are using the discovery process to establish exactly what happened. We have served formal written discovery seeking the center’s account of the incident, its staffing and supervision records, its training and discipline policies, any video footage, its incident reports, and whether and when it notified the family and child-care licensing. The center’s answers and its records will show whether it met the duties it owed this child.
We represent the family and have filed suit in Fort Bend County against the company that operates the center. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to supervise, the failure to use appropriate discipline, the failure to keep adequate and trained staff, the failure to render aid, and the failure to notify the parent and the state of the child’s injury. Written discovery is underway, and we are pressing the center to produce its records, footage, and a full account of what happened.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, let that child be hurt in its care, and then keep the family in the dark about it. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
We represent the family and have filed suit in Fort Bend County against the company that operates the center. We brought claims for negligence, gross negligence, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, including the failure to supervise, the failure to use appropriate discipline, the failure to keep adequate and trained staff, the failure to render aid, and the failure to notify the parent and the state of the child’s injury. Written discovery is underway, and we are pressing the center to produce its records, footage, and a full account of what happened.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, let that child be hurt in its care, and then keep the family in the dark about it. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
