“They didn’t put no sunscreen on them and no shirt and when I asked them about it, they claimed they were out of sunscreen and that they told the kids to put on their shirts, but they didn’t want to leave them on”, Broadway told the station. The news was telling us not to be outside.’.
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The children’s grandfather, Wayne Broadway, told Daily Mail Online that the burnt skin had been removed from the boys and that they were now being treated with wraps, which are changed regularly. They were later transferred to a Galveston hospital for treatment.
The daycare, which has been cited 19 times by the Department of Human Services in the last 10 months, told Ms Broadway that they had run out of sunscreen but the boys.
Seven-year-old Connor and 5-year-old Trae are now in a hospital in Galveston, Texas, after suffering second and third-degree burns, NBC affiliate KJRH reported. “He started to started to complain of chest pains and not being able to breathe and his chest started swelling”, she said.
Her children Conner Harvey, 7, and his brother Tray Wells, 5, have become covered in blisters from the burns they received, and taken to a hospital out of state after the skin issues escalated to unsafe levels. “I’m trying to be strong for them”.
“No child should have to endure this pain, especially due to the negligence of their caretakers”, Jerry Broadway wrote on GoFundMe. “What you can’t see is that there are a bunch of tiny blisters forming on his skin underneath the cream, which is why it looks like that”.
The boys’ aunt later posted photos of the burns on her Facebook page over the weekend.
Officials say this isn’t the first time “Happiness Is A Learning Center” has had a run-in with DHS.
The family reportedly filed a report with Vinita Police on Sunday.
‘I’m a single parent, and I do all I can. “Even to the point of begging me not to go back to work because they don’t want to ever go back to day care again”.
“Whether it was intentional or not intentional, they were supposed to take care of them, and they did not – and that’s the bottom line”, she said.
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is aware of the incident and is conducting an investigation, said Debra Martin, communications manager.
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The daycare would not comment to the Tulsa Frontier or KOTV on this latest case. It is not clear if this is the case for Happiness Is A Learning Center.
