PEVELY, Mo. (AP) – A woman accused of abusing four toddlers in 2017 at an eastern Missouri church day care center continued working until January because her mother, who directed the center, did not report the abuse, prosecutors said.Kimberly Boyd, 55, and Kaileen Boyd, 24, of Hillsboro, were charged with child abuse and neglect in the last week, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Employees at the Victory Church day care in Pevely reported that Kaileen Boyd was accused of abusing four 1-year-old children from July to September 2017, according to charging documents. She is accused of twisting a child’s leg, putting her hand over a crying girl’s mouth, shaking a child who wouldn’t go to sleep and pinning a boy against a wall by his neck and torso while yelling at him.
The charges say Kimberly Boyd did not report the complaints to the state.
Online court records do not name attorneys for either woman.
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