WARNING: Some may find the video in this story disturbing.
A family is taking legal action against a metro Atlanta daycare company. In an exclusive interview, Matt and Mallory Stevens told Channel 2′s Michele Newell what a teacher did to their son.
A shocking video shows a daycare teacher shaking the boy before throwing him to the ground. According to the lawsuit, the incident happened in 2022 at The Sunshine House on Brushy Drive in Loganville.
“It was terrible you never want to see your child treated that way. Thrown to the ground,” said the victim’s father, Matt Stevens.
“The teacher is in such a rage that she proceeds to yank every child violently by the arm to sit them at a round table,” said Attorney Peter Ross of Ross & Pines, LLC.
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In the video, you see the teacher walk back over to the boy, grab him and place him in a chair.
“At the time we were told he was just yanked up by one of his arms. Several hours passed between when it happened and when we were notified. We were later contacted by law enforcement saying they viewed the video and that we needed to have other areas of his body, his back and head examined, that he was forcibly thrown to the ground. He was 15 months at the time that was shocking to hear,” his mother Mallory Stevens said.