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MARICOPA, Ariz. – Two Phoenix-area parents said a child bit their daughter eight times while at Sunrise Preschools in Maricopa, KGUN reports.
Rocio Enriquez said when her husband, Rylee Umsted, went to pick up their 1-year-old daughter, Mila, from day care, they found the bite marks all over her back.
"She was shaking and I knew she didn't want to be there," Umsted said.
They said it happened about 20 minutes before they picked her up, and said they aren't happy with the day care's explanation.
"She told me there were three children in the classroom, including my daughter," Enriquez said. "A teacher was changing a diaper when another child went on top of her and started biting her."
"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 added.
They said they were told the incident happened in about 30 seconds.
"I can't believe it until I see it," Enriquez said.
They said the incident was captured on surveillance video. The parents said Sunrise Preschools isn't letting them look at it.
"We don't know what to think, because we don't know the true answer," Umsted said. "But there's a video out there that tells the truth."
They asked to see the video and called for changes to be made at the facility, so what happened to their child doesn't happen to another.
"Sunrise should've either had two teachers in that room, or they need different training," Umsted said.
Sunrise Preschools issued the following statement:
Hours later, Dana Vela, the president of Sunrise Preschools, issued another statement saying that the caregiver who was watching the children was suspended without pay pending further investigation:
Maricopa police told KGUN that they are investigating.