On a Monday afternoon in March 2024, Erin Higgins picked up her three-year-old son early from Sunrise Preschools on Elliot Road in Chandler. The school’s staff said he’d had an accident and didn’t want to be changed, but that was far from the whole story.
Once home, after a quiet, hour-long drive from Chandler to Buckeye, the young boy said something that caught her off guard.
“Mommy,” he said, pointing to his face. “A teacher hit me.”…