Daycare worker charged with first-degree child abuse and battery: ‘Every parent’s worst nightmare’

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A daycare worker is facing charges of first-degree aggravated battery and three counts of first-degree child abuse following an incident allegedly involving a one-year-old boy.

Yvette Thurston, 54, was arrested last Monday, according to police in Bainbridge, Georgia, KCRG reported. Thurston was identified as an employee at the Little Blessings Child Care, located inside the Bainbridge Church of God.

The father of two boys, aged one and three, slammed the daycare in a Facebook post and alleged that the charges related to his one-year-old son. He shared pictures of one child with a large, deep purple bruise over one of his swollen eyes, and several cuts across his face.

“This was his FIRST DAY!!! This is every parent’s worst nightmare and WE had to live it and are still living it,” Cory Weeks wrote.

more at https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/georgia-daycare-worker-child-abuse-battery-b2809263.html

 

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Whoever abuses a small child needs to be locked in a room alone with the parents.

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and then there is this

Judge receives threats after granting bond to Bainbridge daycare worker accused of child abuse

BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (WCTV) - A judge has received threats after granting bond to a South Georgia daycare worker who is accused of child abuse.

The District Attorney’s Office released a statement Monday on the threats. The hostility comes about a week after Yvette Thurston, 54, was charged with first-degree aggravated battery and three counts of first-degree child abuse, according to the Bainbridge Public Safety.

After Thurston’s arrest, a judge set her bond at $44,000. The daycare worker bonded out of the Decatur County Jail last week, online records show.

more at https://www.wctv.tv/2025/08/18/judge-receives-threats-after-granting-bond-bainbridge-daycare-worker-accused-child-abuse/