HOMESTEAD, Fla. — A woman who works as a daycare teacher in Homestead was arrested Monday after she allegedly abused a young boy in her classroom, police said.
According to an arrest report, the incident occurred Monday at Smart Start, located at 630 Washington Ave.
Homestead police said the victim’s mother arrived at the daycare at about 4:45 p.m. to pick her son up when he told her a teacher, identified by him as Ms. Heather, grabbed him by the arm and pushed him to the floor.
Police said the victim sustained markings on his right forearm, “which were consistent with having been grabbed.”
According to the report, the victim’s aunt works at the daycare and noticed her nephew had a injury to his right forearm after she dropped him off at Heather Nicole Williams’ classroom, but said Williams denied grabbing him by the arm and claimed that she grabbed him underneath the armpit.
Police said the aunt asked her nephew what happened and he told her Williams had grabbed him “really hard” and pushed him.
According to the report, Williams told police that she did not know how the boy sustained the injury to his forearm and claimed that she only placed her hand underneath his armpit to help him get up from the floor.
Police, however, said her statement was not consistent with the injury the boy sustained and he was consistent in describing what occurred to his aunt, mother and to detectives.
Williams was arrested on a charge of child abuse without great bodily harm.
As of Tuesday morning, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her bond as “to be set.”
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