VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — After Wave Children’s Learning Center’s announcement that it was closing, another family told 10 On Your Side they, too, had a terrible experience there with their infant child and said the facility had no interest making improvements.
Wave Children’s Learning Center in Virginia Beach abruptly shutting down
The child’s mother read from the inspection report from September 2023: “Staff #1 (who is Jhamica Jackson) was observed grabbing Child # 1, (my seven-month old daughter),+ by both upper arms and moving the child, with the torso unsupported and the child’s body swinging, from an exersaucer to a bouncer seat. Staff # 1 quickly put the child into the bouncer causing the seat to noticeably rock and bounce.”
The family pediatrician thought it could be child abuse, and reported it to police, but during the Department of Social Services inspection, “they uncovered 13 different examples from that on visit, one being my daughters of the mishandling of the children and in the video, we saw Jhamica do this to our daughter.”
In that inspection, 10 on Your Side counted six children, and three staff members in this inspection report, and violations would be found in the last four inspections noted at the center, including a Nov. 14, 2024 inspection at the Learning Center that would lead to a criminal complaint against Jackson…