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<span style="font-weight: bold">Missing toddler found locked in daycare</span>
By TAMARA CHERRY, SUN MEDIA
The Toronto Sun
A four-year-old boy was left locked inside Toronto's Hollis Resource Child Care Centre until 11:30pm. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (Sun Media/Dave Thomas).
TORONTO -- Hours after all the other kids had gone home, after the lights were shut off and the doors locked, a four-year-old boy was found in a darkened city-run daycare, cold and alone.
For Casily Hanson, the Tuesday night ordeal was a nightmare, she recalled yesterday.
Hanson's son, Kaylon, was supposed to be picked up by his father from Hollis Resource Child Care Centre on Guestville Ave., near Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. W. Tuesday afternoon.
When the father said he couldn't make it, Hanson asked her older son, McKenzie, to pick him up. McKenzie arrived at the daycare just after 6 p.m., only to be told his little brother wasn't there.
WENT TO PARTY
" 'All the kids were gone,' that's what she said to me," McKenzie said.
And so off he went with his friends to celebrate his 16th birthday, all the while thinking Kaylon's dad must have picked the youngster up after all. But when McKenzie arrived home about 9 p.m. without his little brother, Hanson called 911.
After searching the neighbourhood with no luck, police decided to check the daycare.
It was about 11 p.m. "and the place was all in darkness and locked up," Toronto Police Sgt. Peter Stehouwer said. "They (officers) worked feverishly to try to get a night listing for someone who could come and open the doors, which was really a problem because we couldn't locate anybody."
FOUND WITH COAT ON
Finally, at about 11:15 p.m., cleaning staff arrived at the daycare for work.
Inside, in the toddler room, on a couple of baby-blue cushions in his baby blue coat and gloves, Kaylon was found asleep and trembling from the cold, Hanson said.
"A little four-year-old, all alone in there," Stehouwer said. "It was obviously an oversight on the staff's part."
Hanson figured Kaylon must have left the daycare only to return for a nap, but the daycare records told a different story.
"Everybody had been signed in and out except this little kid hadn't been signed out," Stehouwer said.
"I trust them," an angry Hanson said of the daycare staff. "I put all my trust in them to take care of him and I wasn't expecting something like that to happen."
The city is conducting an investigation into the incident, after which "we'll take whatever appropriate action that we need to," spokesman Patricia Trott said.
By TAMARA CHERRY, SUN MEDIA
The Toronto Sun
A four-year-old boy was left locked inside Toronto's Hollis Resource Child Care Centre until 11:30pm. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (Sun Media/Dave Thomas).
TORONTO -- Hours after all the other kids had gone home, after the lights were shut off and the doors locked, a four-year-old boy was found in a darkened city-run daycare, cold and alone.
For Casily Hanson, the Tuesday night ordeal was a nightmare, she recalled yesterday.
Hanson's son, Kaylon, was supposed to be picked up by his father from Hollis Resource Child Care Centre on Guestville Ave., near Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. W. Tuesday afternoon.
When the father said he couldn't make it, Hanson asked her older son, McKenzie, to pick him up. McKenzie arrived at the daycare just after 6 p.m., only to be told his little brother wasn't there.
WENT TO PARTY
" 'All the kids were gone,' that's what she said to me," McKenzie said.
And so off he went with his friends to celebrate his 16th birthday, all the while thinking Kaylon's dad must have picked the youngster up after all. But when McKenzie arrived home about 9 p.m. without his little brother, Hanson called 911.
After searching the neighbourhood with no luck, police decided to check the daycare.
It was about 11 p.m. "and the place was all in darkness and locked up," Toronto Police Sgt. Peter Stehouwer said. "They (officers) worked feverishly to try to get a night listing for someone who could come and open the doors, which was really a problem because we couldn't locate anybody."
FOUND WITH COAT ON
Finally, at about 11:15 p.m., cleaning staff arrived at the daycare for work.
Inside, in the toddler room, on a couple of baby-blue cushions in his baby blue coat and gloves, Kaylon was found asleep and trembling from the cold, Hanson said.
"A little four-year-old, all alone in there," Stehouwer said. "It was obviously an oversight on the staff's part."
Hanson figured Kaylon must have left the daycare only to return for a nap, but the daycare records told a different story.
"Everybody had been signed in and out except this little kid hadn't been signed out," Stehouwer said.
"I trust them," an angry Hanson said of the daycare staff. "I put all my trust in them to take care of him and I wasn't expecting something like that to happen."
The city is conducting an investigation into the incident, after which "we'll take whatever appropriate action that we need to," spokesman Patricia Trott said.
to call the toddlers father ??
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