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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsColorado day care hid children behind a 'false wall,' police say.. 26 kids under age 3 in basement
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/us/colorado-day-care-false-wall-trnd/index.html
A Colorado day care used a "false wall" to hide 26 children under the age of 3 in a basement, police said, concealing the fact it had too many children in its care.
Officers went to Play Mountain Place in Colorado Springs Wednesday after complaints about overcrowding there when they found the children along with two adults behind the false wall. The day care had a licensed capacity of six children, according to May 2019 data on the Colorado Department of Human Services website.
The department immediately suspended the day care's license while it investigates, the agency said in a statement.
Police didn't immediately find any children when they first arrived at the day care, the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement. They contacted owner Carla Faith, who lives on the property, and she "refused to cooperate" with the officers, police said.
But police could hear children in her home, and while investigating, they found a false wall leading to the basement.
"Officers immediately began working with DHS to release the children back to their parents," the police department said.
The state Department of Human Services received the complaint Wednesday and enlisted police help in carrying out the welfare check, the department said in a statement.
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Colorado day care hid children behind a 'false wall,' police say.. 26 kids under age 3 in basement (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Nov 2019
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)1. WTF is happening in this country?
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)2. Oh my ...
That had to be so hard on the children. 26!
Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)3. Colorado Springs is .... Special
For some reason, it is a center of Evangelical Christianity(tm).
Some of these people seem to have a bit of an "adversarial" relationship with anything that isn't specifically mentioned in the Bible. And frankly more than a few things that are, if the truth were told.