Two Minnesota daycare employees were arrested this week after they were allegedly caught on surveillance footage inflicting “exceptionally shocking” abuse on three babies.
Chloe Kaye Johnson, 24, and Elizabeth Augusta Wiemerslage, 22, face charges of malicious punishment of a child under 4, assault against a victim under 4, and two counts of malicious punishment of a child.
The allegations against the two suspects emerged when a couple noticed unexplained bruising on their 5-month-old daughter’s lower body on July 16 after she spent the day at the Small World Daycare.
Johnson and Wiemerslage claimed the bruising was from the infant’s chair.
Police reviewed surveillance footage from the daycare showed the women being rough with three infants, including the 5-month-old, “aggressively” grabbing them and slamming them onto a support pillow.
“Although we have been forced to investigate other terrible acts of child abuse, this one is exceptionally shocking,” Blaine Police said.
“Most parents drop their children off at daycare centers believing that their child will be safe, especially since there is usually more than one care provider watching their child at any one given time,”
“In this case, we found two workers working together with infants, both aggressively abusing children.”
