An Indiana church day care worker is accused of breaking a 2-year-old boy’s leg when his ankle rolled as she was “playing” with him by “lifting him in the air” and putting him down, and she later allegedly told police the boy is “not really a nice kid,” is a “crybaby,” and has “anger problems.”
Areeana Adeniyi, 26, faces battery and neglect of dependent charges after the alleged incident. She has a warrant out for her arrest, online court records show.
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The alleged incident happened on July 23 at the Zionsville Presbyterian Church, about 18 miles north of Indianapolis. The case came to light the following day when the boy’s father learned that his son had broken his tibia, saw a video of the incident that contradicted what the day care’s incident report said about how it happened, and called the police, according to an affidavit of probable cause, reported by local NBC affiliate WTHR .
“It was not just a simple pick up and put down like it was described and signed off on the incident report. His tibia snapped visually on the footage,” said the boy’s father, who reported the case to police after seeing the video, the station reported.