KinderCare on Probation, After Workers Leave Child and Go Home

A county licensing board has placed Largo KinderCare Learning Center on six months' probation, after staff went home for the night, leaving an 11-month-old child alone in the facility.

The daycare, located at 3270 East Bay Drive, will have to undergo monthly inspections to keep its license during the probationary period, according to the Tampa Bay Times. 

At issue was an incident where employees went home for the night, leaving a young boy sleeping in a crib. The staff members thought that all the children in their care had gone home.

The father arrived 30 minutes late to check out his child to discover the daycare center locked and dark. 

Licensed daycare facilities are required to check children in and out to parents and or guardians. 

No criminal charges were filed in the case, but the employees involved were fired from their jobs.

KinderCare is part of a chain of daycare facilities across the nation.