A child care provider is a person that takes care of a child or children while their parents work or go to school. A child care provider has many responsibilities. Some of the responsibilities of a child care provider are to provide nutritious meals, have a clean environment, organize activities that stimulate children physical, emotional, and intellectual and social growth, comfort children when they are crying, and supervise children while they are playing outside or inside. When a parent is looking for a child care for their child rather it is at a facility or in a home the parent want to be able to trust the child care provider and build a rapport with them. One of the main things that most parents look for is a safe, loving, and intriguing environment for their child.
In this article a caregiver is charged with manslaughter in the death of a toddler. Ms. Skeeeter was a licensed home care provider in New York. Mr. Williamson took his soon there every day at 6 a.m. Mr. Williamson had arranged for Ms. Skeeter to take care of his son because he just found a landscaping job, and gained custody of his son after a long legal battle. Mr. Williamson began to see troubling signs when he picked his son up from Ms. Skeeter. He noticed bumps, bruises, and also a black eye and a fat lip. When he asked Ms. Skeeter what
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Skeeter where they found his son unresponsive. He was taken to the hospital and was pronounces dead there a short time later. Mr. Williamson said that he had not known that there was anything wrong until he got home on Friday evening to find police cars on the block and a neighbor told him that’s for your child. He rushed to the hospital where he learned that his son was dead.The district attorney charged Ms. Skeeter with manslaughter and reckless endangerment. The New York City medical examiner office ruled the death a homicide that he died of a blunt force trauma to the head and