Daycare Center Closed After Video Of Kid 'Fight Night' Goes Viral

By Bill Galluccio

May 12, 2024

Persons hand filming two schoolboys fighting in school corridor with mobile phone, Bavaria, Germany
Photo: Niedring/Drentwett / Cavan / Getty Images

daycare center in Billings, Montana, has closed down after a video showing two young kids fighting went viral. An employee at Bibs to Books recorded two kids, ages three and four, fighting and posted it to Snapchat with the caption, "Fight night already starting."

The video was then shared on Facebook and quickly went viral.

A reporter from MTN News went to the daycare center and found a note from the owner, Linda Thomas, posted on the door.

"The video circulating on social media is and never will be acceptable at Bibs to Books," Thomas wrote. "I am incredibly disappointed in the staff members that were found to record this, as fighting should never be encouraged by anyone."

A daycare employee told the news station that the state launched an investigation into the incident and that the two employees involved were fired.

The news station also spoke to the mothers of the children involved, Jocelyn Pflughoft and Jackie Devincenzi. They both had no problem with their kids play-fighting but were upset that the workers filmed them without permission.

"They were just being boys. I don't know how else to put it," Pflughoft said. "Everybody needs to realize kids are going to be kids. They were playing. You can see in the video, they were smiling and laughing."

"As soon as we saw the Snapchat, we checked both of our children over. There was no harm. There was not even red marks," she added.

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