North Olmsted mom furious after toddler found in middle of busy road while at daycare

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO) - A North Olmsted mother is furious after she learned her toddler with special needs was left unsupervised at daycare and wandered into the middle of the street.

For the past two months, a two-year-old North Olmsted girl has been going to Bee My Baby Childcare without any issues.

“With the special needs and things that she had, they were working really well with her,” her mother explained. “She progressed there a lot. It was honestly really hard to believe that something like that happened.”

The mother wanted to remain anonymous because she is still deciding if she’ll take legal action against the daycare. She said on Wednesday she got a call from the daycare saying her daughter wandered off, but a woman brought her back. She didn’t find out the full story until Friday.

“I actually had just found out today, when hearing back from the police department that she was actually in the middle of Lorain Road, and a bunch of cars had to stop to get her, and luckily, that woman grabbed her and brought her back,” the mom said.

The mom said she was horrified.

“I don’t even think there was any words,” she recalled. “It was just anger, disbelief, gratefulness, just anything that you could think of, just all of it, just going through it was really scary.”

The woman who stopped in traffic to pick up the child reported the incident to North Olmsted police. They said they’re investigating and will likely hand the case over to Children and Family Services.

“They also kind of made it sound like a lot quicker of a thing and a lot less dramatic of a thing than it actually was,” the mother said.

The mom said the daycare told her they had all the kids outside because they had the Kona ice truck in the parking lot.

“Just the fact that nobody knew that she was in the road, in the middle of a very busy road, and down the street a little bit. It’s just, it’s, it’s too much negligence for me. That’s too long for her to have been unnoticed,” said the North Olmsted mom.

She says her daughter is definitely not going back to that daycare.

“It’s already been, like, extra scary lately since, you know, like the things that happened earlier, about a month ago, with that child that was killed in the area,” the mom explained. “It just already puts parents on edge.”

She also worries about other kids there.

“That’s kind of part of why I wanted to not just keep quiet about it,” she said. “I, you know, like, I’m not trying to hurt anybody or ruin anybody’s business or get anybody in trouble, but like, at the same time, it’s that can’t happen, that could have been anybody’s kid, and it could have gone very, very differently.”

19 News did reach out to the daycare for an interview, but they told me they had no comment and hung up the phone.