DOVER,
Del. (CBS) – Three daycare employees were arrested on
Monday for allegedly watching and encouraging toddlers to fight each other
while under their care. According
to Dover Police, three employees from the Hands of Our Future Daycare in
Delaware were arrested after a cell phone video showed employees watching and
encouraging two 3-year-olds fight each other.



Tiana
Harris, 19, Lisa Parker, 47, and Estefania Myers, 21, were charged with
Assault, Endangering the Welfare of a Child, Reckless Endangering and
Conspiracy for the incident, which occurred in March of 2012 and was captured
on cell phone video. In the
video, police say one child can be heard crying and yelling, ‘He’s pinching
me,’ while a daycare worker responds, ‘No pinching, only punching.’”

Clearly
one of the children is crying and does not want to continue on and he is pushed
back into the fray by one of the adults, Dover Police Captain Tim Stump said.



Cristyl
Slack says her four-year-old daughter was in the room when the fight happened
in March. “That
pissed me off just because I feel if my daughter is around anything I should
have known that day,” Slack said.



The
fight video is not being shown to parents or the public because police say it
is evidence. “I
can’t ever believe in a million years. I mean I would have to see the proof to
believe it,” parent Amy Bickling said.

Hands
of Our Future Daycare, located at 868 S. State St., has had its City of Dover
Business License suspended pending a hearing.



The
Dover Police Department arranged for a meeting Monday night for parents or
legal guardians of the daycare’s children to answer questions and help parents
find new daycare arrangements.

Efforts
to reach the daycare owner were not successful.

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