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Jailyn Howard
4-Year-Old Girl Left Behind on Subway Platform
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A worker for a Queens daycare center was a little daycareless Friday when she left a four-year-old girl behind on a 42nd Street subway platform. Jailyn Howard and her twin sister were part of a group of children on a field trip to Manhattan, supervised by a lone employee of the Whitney Foundation, a daycare center run out of a house in Jamaica, Queens. According to one account, the worker, Roxanne Jack, was distracted by a fight between two of the children while herding them on board. But Jailyn's cousin, who was also on the field trip, tells CBS2 that Jack was preoccupied and rushing: "She was telling us to hurry up, hurry up. Because she has to be somewhere... All of a sudden she knows Jailyn is missing and she started just panicking." Fortunately, Jack and the kids got off at the next stop and came back to 42nd Street to find Jailyn in the care of police. CBS2 reports that the Whitney Foundation does not seem to be a licensed daycare center and "if that is the case," mom Janel Howard says her kids won't return there. Because it's okay to be negligent as long as you have a license!
Jailyn Howard
Why would you ever entrust your child to an unlicensed daycare center? Are there not enough stories in the news about bad things happening to children left in the care of such places?
I believe the 11-month old who drowned in the bucket was in the care of an unlicensed daycare center.
Probably because you don't know it's unlicensed or because they are the only daycare you can afford. Sad.
my filthy next door neighbors run an unlicensed day care and they can barely take care of themselves.
I'm surprised that this doesn't happen more often, especially with camp and school groups. I wonder if they drill an "oops, I'm lost" contingency plan into their heads.
I got left behind at the Natural History Museum in 3rd grade. They realized when they were back at the school having lunch a few hours later. I got teased for that through high school.
Kids can be so funny...
and mean.
When my kids were little, I drilled them on what we would do if we ever got separated in, say, the subway. It is good to have a plan.
This sounds very scary, tho'.
Given the way some kids out in public, I'm surprised more parents don't just ditch them on the subway platform.
My first memory of being scared *ever* was being seperated from my mother in Macys a very, very long time ago.
I can't even tell you how old I was, all I remember was paralyzing fear. It was my fault, being a pain in the ass, hiding in the clothes rack, she hid and watched me blubber for a few seconds, but good lord did I learn my lesson.
Hmm, seems like that mother is putting the gears in motion to file a lawsuit against the daycare center.
btw-what kind of field trip involves only one person taking a group of 4+ year olds to Manhattan. Sounds like an uncontrollable situation from the start.