In February 2026, the family’s young daughter was enrolled at a licensed child-care center in Wichita Falls. She was dropped off in the center’s care, with her mother trusting the staff to keep constant watch over a small child.
While she was under the center’s supervision, the little girl suffered a broken left femur. That is a serious fracture of the thigh bone, one of the strongest bones in the human body. According to the demand letter, she was found on the ground with her leg throbbing, unable to bear any weight, and had to be transported by ambulance to the hospital for emergency care.
The daycare was responsible for watching her, yet according to the demand letter it could not explain what happened. A child does not break her femur in a properly supervised room without someone seeing how it occurred. The injury, and the center’s inability to account for it, are at the heart of this case.
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 keep them within a caregiver’s sight, to maintain adequate and properly trained staff, to keep children safe from foreseeable harm, and to notify parents immediately when a child is injured. Those are the precise protections that should make a broken femur in care impossible to leave unexplained.
A femur fracture in a young child takes significant force, and a center watching its children should be able to say how one of them was seriously hurt. Because that account does not exist, we have already sent the center a formal evidence-preservation (spoliation) notice demanding that it keep all video footage and records intact. We are pursuing the center’s surveillance footage, its staffing and supervision records, its incident and injury reports, and its account of how a child in its care broke her leg and why her family had to demand answers.
We represent the family and have sent the center a formal demand under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, along with a letter requiring it to preserve all video footage and evidence of what happened. Our claims include negligence, gross negligence, and DTPA violations: the failure to supervise, the failure to provide a safe environment, the failure to keep adequate and trained staff, and the failure to notify the family of the child’s injury. If the center will not resolve the matter, we are prepared to file suit in Wichita County.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, send that child home with a broken leg, and have no explanation for how it happened. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
We represent the family and have sent the center a formal demand under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, along with a letter requiring it to preserve all video footage and evidence of what happened. Our claims include negligence, gross negligence, and DTPA violations: the failure to supervise, the failure to provide a safe environment, the failure to keep adequate and trained staff, and the failure to notify the family of the child’s injury. If the center will not resolve the matter, we are prepared to file suit in Wichita County.
A daycare does not get to take a family’s money to keep their child safe, send that child home with a broken leg, and have no explanation for how it happened. We intend to hold this center fully accountable.
