ALANAH BARBA - 8 mo - Newark NJ

Mom fuming after daycare worker finds 8-month-old with mouse in her mouth


Newark center vows to step up exterminations

By NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, January 25 2012, 8:45 AM




WABC

Newark
mom Brittany Barba pulled her 8-month daughter, Alanah, from a local
day care center after the tot was found with a mouse in her mouth,
according to a local report.

A Newark mom
has yanked her 8-month-old daughter from a local daycare center and is
slamming the center's staff as too lax after her tot was reportedly
found with a dead mouse stuffed in her mouth.

Britanny Barba told ABC 7 News that her baby girl, Alanah, was ill for hours after her mother-in-law, a volunteer at the Donald K Tucker Childcare, discovered the child with the rodent in her mouth on Friday.

"Lately she's been vomiting. Everything she's eaten, she's throwing it back up," Barba said.

"Who was watching her?"

The
executive director of the center, Kiburi Tucker, apologized for the
incident, saying staff members he spoke to told him the child must have
gobbled up the vermin when teachers weren't looking.

"This was an
isolated incident, a very unfortunate incident, and it really hurt me. I
was up all night about this because it could have been my child,"
Tucker, a father of five, told ABC 7.

Tucker said he called the
state health department to the center for advice on how to fight the
pest problem, and promised that an exterminator would now visit the
center twice a month, rather than once a month.

Despite the stepped up efforts, Barba said she wouldn't trust the daycare to look after her child.

"They need to watch the kids more," she said.

A doctor at a local ER said little Alanah wasn't injured in the incident, ABC 7 reported.

www.nydailynews.com/.../mom-fuming-daycare-worker-finds-8-mo...

O.M.G.

"They need to watch the kids more," she said.

GEE - ya think??????

How disgusting that no one saw the dead mouse laying around. Hope the baby is OK.