“It feels both angry and sad at the same time.”
A mother has told of her horror at discovering that her daughter had at least 25 bite marks on her body after she was picked up from nursery.
Alice Martin said that she collected her 15-month-old daughter, Rosalynn, and later noticed that she had a series of red marks across her shoulders and back.
Police said the bites appear to have come from another child.
The Arizona mother told local news station WECT 6 News:
“It’s stomach-turning. It feels both angry and sad at the same time. At first, I was like ‘are those really bite marks?’ And then, my brain kinda stopped thinking and I started crying.
“The fact they didn’t notify me even when I picked her up is just astounding.”
Martin said that she has since informed the local police and the Department of Health. She is accusing the nursery of negligence and has warned other parents via Facebook not to send their children there.
“I know that a child getting bitten that many times would be crying and very upset,” she said. “You always want to protect your children and I feel like that didn’t happen.
“I feel like I left her with someone that didn’t look out for her at all.”
The Tuscan Police Department are currently investigating the incident.
