Marblehead YMCA Staffers Fired After Baby Was Left Alone
A 10-month-old was left alone at the Marblehead Y's day care service — albeit for only two to five minutes. But that was enough for two workers to be fired and prompt a state investigation.
The Marblehead YMCA fired two day care workers who allowed a baby to go unsupervised, according to Patch news partners 7News. The 10-month-old was only alone for between two and five minutes — and was sleeping securely in a stroller. But that was enough to outrage the child's mother and father. "It’s scary," father Andrew Turcotte told 7News. "It was only about an hour and a half that you leave your baby there and there’s more than one staff member there so it felt safe at first and now we can’t take him back there." Societies differ wildly on standards for leaving children alone. For example, in Scandinavia it is the custom to leave babies outside in strollers to nap during winter. It's believed the practice toughens the children, leads …
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louise
12:09 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
While your note about differing societal standards for leaving children alone is interesting I don't see that it has any bearing on this particular story. When a parent entrusts the care of a child to people paid to look after that child it is expected that those "caregivers" will be there for the duration of the stay. I'd say the YMCA was damn lucky it was only 2-5 minutes because it could have … more ›