The family had entrusted their young son to a licensed child-care center in The Woodlands, Montgomery County. He was in the center’s care during the day, with his family trusting the staff to watch him closely and keep him safe.
According to the family, while their son was under the center’s supervision, he suffered a severe head injury. The family contends the injury was the result of a lack of proper supervision. It is the kind of harm that close, attentive watching is meant to prevent.
The injury was not minor. According to the family, it required emergency medical intervention and sutures to close the wound. A head injury serious enough to send a young child for emergency care and stitches is exactly the kind of event a family expects a licensed center to prevent. When it does happen, a family expects the center to be fully transparent about it.
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, keep adequate staffing, provide a safe environment, and meet minimum safety requirements. Those protections are meant to keep a child from suffering a serious head injury in the first place. The family contends the center fell short of those duties.
We have asked the center to preserve all video footage and electronic records of the incident, and we are working to obtain its supervision and staffing records, its incident and injury documentation, and its account of how a child in its care was hurt this badly. A family should be able to trust that a daycare will watch their child closely enough that a severe head injury does not happen. A family should also be able to trust that, if it does happen, the center will be straight with them about it.
We represent the family and have placed the center on formal notice of the claim, including under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and have demanded that the center preserve its video footage and records. We are pursuing claims for the center’s negligence and its failure to provide the safe, properly supervised care it represented. We are prepared to file suit if the center does not resolve the matter.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe and then let that child suffer a severe head injury on its watch. We intend to find out exactly how this happened and to hold this center accountable.
We represent the family and have placed the center on formal notice of the claim, including under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and have demanded that the center preserve its video footage and records. We are pursuing claims for the center’s negligence and its failure to provide the safe, properly supervised care it represented. We are prepared to file suit if the center does not resolve the matter.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe and then let that child suffer a severe head injury on its watch. We intend to find out exactly how this happened and to hold this center accountable.
