SC daycare workers arrested, charged with running fight ring involving young kids
November 12, 2023 | Vivek Saxena
Two South Carolina daycare workers were reportedly arrested this Thursday for encouraging their underage charges to physically fight one another.
“Ericka Sherai’ Jones and Serena Caldwell, who were both employees at the Kids Unlimited of Prosperity daycare, turned themselves in Thursday at the Newberry County Detention Center after allegations emerged the pair allowed and even encouraged children to be violent each,” The State reported Saturday.
“Caldwell, 56, was charged with 15 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor unlawful conduct toward a child. Jones, 27, was charged with 14 counts of the same offense,” the Columbia, South Carolina paper added.
Jones and Caldwell ordered the kids at the daycare to slap, push, shove, and hit one another as a “means of punishment or to entice them to follow rules,” Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said to local media.
“It was a situation where they were participating in it by encouraging the kids, and they kind of looked at it as something maybe almost equivalent to a sporting event where they were kind of trying to motivate the kids into participating in that,” he added.
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