“I don’t understand how this happened”: Mother speaks after judge shuts down East Canton daycare

On the morning of March 10, Missy Williams said her baby boy was smiling.

Grant Simmons was his normal, happy self that morning, Missy said. She snapped a photo of him smiling and sent it to his father, Brad Simmons, who was out of town for work — a moment that would take on new meaning hours later.

“He was always smiling,” Missy said. “He could light up a room the second you walked in with him.”

A day that changed everything

Hours later, everything changed.

Missy was working her shift as a cashier at BellStores in East Canton when she received a text message at 1:23 p.m. saying Grant had soaked through his diaper and didn’t have any extra clothes…

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