On March 4, 2026, parents of 21 children at Lil’ Explorers Childcare in Plymouth filed a civil lawsuit in Hennepin County, accusing Cadence Education LLC and a former staffer of repeatedly using abusive discipline on toddlers. The complaint seeks roughly $50,000 for each child and says the young students now struggle with night terrors, toileting regressions and heightened fear responses. The suit comes in the wake of cellphone video that circulated last year and a criminal plea in which the former teacher admitted to malicious punishment of a child.
What the complaint says
The lawsuit claims that staff, including former employee Katie Ann Voigt, “daily exposed” toddlers to abusive conduct, and that multiple employees raised red flags with management…..