A mum has been left furious after nursery workers allegedly taped her daughter’s shoes to her feet.
Jessica Hayes’s toddler daughter returned home one day from the Pleasant Hill Daycare in North Caroline with her runners taped to her feet.
The mum wrote that she believed one of the workers had become “upset” that her daughter was learning to take her shoes off herself.
On Facebook, she said:
“Someone was clearly upset that she was learning to take her shoes off and done it out of being aggravated.
“This was also not just her shoes being taped up it was around her ankle, my 17-month-old child was unable to say anything. This was left on long enough and tight enough to leave marks, cause swelling, and bruise.”
Hayes also shared images of her daughter’s feet before and after the shoes were removed.
Hayes went on:
“I appropriately reacted and went straight to the director who was just as speechless as I was.
“I then went to take the tape off and my daughter was crying as this was obviously uncomfortable to her. I proceeded to call and speak with the director to inform this has left marks on my child.”
She also felt she needed to add that she didn’t “create a bad name” for the nursery in question, she just wanted to highlight what had happened.
Following the incident, two of the workers involved in taping the shoes lost their jobs.
Hayes has said that she is confident that the issue has been resolved and that she is happy for her daughter to return to the nursery.
