December 24, 2010 Daycare worker charged with lewd acts on kids www.privateofficer.com
GREER, SC Dec 24 2010
A former day care teacher charged with four counts of lewd act on a child is out of jail on bond. The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office arrested 22-year old Ronasha Taylor of Simpsonville on Wednesday.
Investigators say Taylor, while working at “Kids R Kids” day care on Westmoreland Road in Greer, made four children touch her bare chest on several occassions.
Michele Seckinger, the owner and director of “Kids R Kids”, says on October 18th a child told his parent about the alleged touching and the parent complained to day care staff.
“The staff were the ones that notified and requested an investigation by South Carolina Department of Social Services who in turn requested we notify the sheriff’s office,” says Seckinger in a written statement.
Seckinger, who was not the director of the Greer facility at the time, says staff immediately placed Taylor on unpaid leave of absence. She says she terminated Taylor in November.
“(Taylor) was hired by Kids R Kids in April 2009 witha clean record having prior experience at three other non-affiliated Upstate child care centers,” says Seckinger. “Futhermore, the teacher passed all state and other required background checks prior to her employment.”
She says the other day care centers at which Taylor worked gave her good references, and she says Taylor is pursuing a degree in Early Childhood Education at Greenville Tech.
Seckinger says Taylor was the teacher of a K4 class comprised of 9 students. She says the alleged victims were students of Taylor’s. She also says all of them were four years old and some were boys and some were girls. She also says the children told investigators when Taylor committed the lewd acts, she took them into the restroom where there are no surveillance cameras. She says the parents of the children removed them from the school.
A spokesperson for the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office says the day care has cooperated fully with investigators during the course of the investigation.
A spokesperson for DSS says the agency is investigating the situation to determine if “Kids R Kids” could have done anything further to prevent or deter the alleged behavior.
Taylor has not returned calls seeking comment. A man who identified himself as her brother said she went to see an attorney on Thursday. She is out of jail on $10,000 bond.
News Channel 7
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