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Doors locked, lights off and no staff inside, so woman calls 911 to get her child out
PLANTATION, Fla. – A mother was forced to call 911 after she showed up to pick up her 2-year-old daughter at a daycare center and found the doors locked, the lights off, and her child left alone inside.
On Tuesday, Feb. 15, just after 6 p.m., Stephanie Martinez arrived at the KinderCare Child Care Center in Plantation and it looked closed.
Samantha Scaramellino, who is the little girl’s aunt, told Local 10 News that Martinez had called her hoping that she had picked up 2-year-old Anastasia at the daycare. Scaramellino said she told Martinez she did not have her niece.
That’s when Martinez saw her daughter inside the daycare alone, peering out of a door’s window, and she called 911.
“She is inside the daycare. She just came up to the door,” Martinez told the dispatcher.
The dispatcher asked: “She is inside by herself?”
Martinez said: “Yes, she’s crying. She’s inside by herself.”