Florida day care worker caught abusing 1-year-old: authorities

A Florida working day care employee has been charged with little one abuse just after acquiring caught on disturbing surveillance movie manhandling a 1-year-previous and dropping him.

Yamirka Menendez, 51, is accused of grabbing the toddler by his wrists, swinging him 3 ft into the air and dropping him on the ground — fracturing the boy’s leg, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Business office explained in a launch.

Menendez is also billed with “forcibly” grabbing a 4-thirty day period-outdated and slapping the infant many moments at the Time of Question Academy in Tampa on Sept. 8, the sheriff’s business office reported.

A further staffer, Milagros Rodriguez, 52, was billed with failing to report kid abuse.

In accordance to the sheriff, the mom of the 1-yr-aged victim discovered her son experienced ache in his remaining foot the pursuing day and took him to St. Joseph’s Clinic, in which he was diagnosed with fractures to his tibia and fibula.

On Thursday, the toddler was re-examined by the University of South Florida Kid Protection Team, which established he was a victim of bodily abuse.

Detectives reviewed the video clip and charged the two gals on Tuesday.

Neither experienced a criminal heritage, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.