A one-year-old who came home from an Antioch daycare drowsy and glassy-eyed later tested positive for THC, and now state regulators have told the unlicensed operation to stop taking children while they dig into what happened.
The Tennessee Department of Human Services has opened an investigation into the home-based operation, identified in court filings as Sparkles Playhouse, and has asked operator Sparkle Goins to cease operations while officials review the case.
Parents told investigators their toddler appeared “drowsy” with “drooping, fluttering eyelids” after being picked up from the daycare, then was taken to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, where the child tested positive for THC, according to NewsChannel 5. In a statement to the station, DHS said it “does conduct investigations to determine if unlicensed day care operations, like this one, are operating illegally.”…