Hearing set for owners of San Jose daycare where 2 drowned

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — Two women, who co-owned and operated a San Jose daycare where toddlers drowned, remain out of jail as their case slowly moves toward a trial.

Nina Fathizadeh and her mother, Shahin Gheblehshenas, are set to appear in the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice for a preliminary hearing on August 4. They are facing nine counts of child endangerment-related charges.

The toddlers, Payton Cobb and Lillian Jade Hanan, drowned in a backyard pool at Happy Happy Day Care at 1054 Fleetwood Avenue on Monday, October 2, 2023. Payton was 18 months old and Lillian was 16 months old when they died.

Happy Happy Day Care was understaffed, investigators said, and there were no adults watching the young children when they either “fell or jumped into the pool,” the district attorney’s office wrote. A door to the gate that block off the pool had been propped open by Gheblehshenas’ husband while he was watering plants, a San Jose police report states. No one closed the gate before parents began arriving that morning to drop off their children, according to the police report…

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