One-Year-Old Girl Bitten 'Multiple Times' While At Daycare

The parents of a 15-month-old girl are outraged after their daughter was bitten multiple times while she was at daycare. When Rocio Enriquez and Rylee Umsted went to pick up their daughter at Sunrise Preschools in Maricopa, Arizona they discovered that her back was covered with eight bite marks. A staff member told them that she had been bitten by another child about 20 minutes before they arrived.

"You cannot justify eight bites - maybe one but eight?" Enriquez told KSAZ.

Dana Vela, president of Sunrise Preschools, explained that the supervisor was changing the diaper of another child when Enriquez's daughter was bitten.

"This incident was heartbreaking and unacceptable, and we are working diligently to ensure it does not happen again," Vela said. "We are reviewing all policies and procedures and will take whatever steps are needed to prevent this rare but serious matter from repeating itself."

Vela said that the incident was captured on surveillance cameras and lasted about 30 seconds. Rocio and her husband have not been allowed to view the footage and don't believe the school's version of what happened.

"One bite mark that you look at you'd be like, she'd be screaming bloody murder. So I want to know if someone heard a scream, where was management?" Enriquez told ABC15. "I can't believe it until I see it."

The caregiver has been suspended without pay and the child who bit the young girl was expelled. That child's mother, Lashawna Goulburne, spoke with ABC15 and said that her two-year-old son should not be blamed for what happened.

"He's not at fault here," Goulburne said. "He's two, and we pay, not only me but the other family, we pay for our children to be protected and be monitored and safe."