WA Somali-run daycare took $210,000 in taxpayer funds in 2025 but no childcare business appears to exist: report
"I don’t have childcare."
Hannah Nightingale
Washington DC
Dec 30, 2025
A new investigative report has uncovered daycare fraud undertaken by Somalis in Washington State. A resident living at a home registered as a daycare center in the state told reporters, when confronted that there has never been such a business there.
Video showed journalist Cam Higby sending a decoy up to the home that is listed as housing the business "Dhagash Childcare," with Higby saying that his decoy heard "rustling around on the other side of the Ring camera, as if they were listening to her but not responding."
Journalist Jonathan Choe said he also went to the house with Kristen Mag immediately following Higby "to see if we get the same response, and we sort of did." Choe was able to speak to a person who was inside the home through the doorbell, asking, "is this Dhagash Family Childcare." The woman on the other side replied, "no." He asked what the name of the childcare business was there, and the woman replied, "I don’t have childcare." He recounted asking if the location had ever been a childcare place, and the woman said "no."
https://thepostmillennial.com/wa-somali-run-daycare-took-210000-in-taxpayer-funds-in-2025-but-no-childcare-business-appears-to-exist-report
