Ohio video shows day care employee shoving girl to the ground
Two Ohio Day Care Workers Are Now Facing Charges After Video Shows One of Them Shoving a Black 4-Year-Old to the Floor
Two former day care employees are facing charges that include assault and child endangerment after video footage shows a 4-year-old child being pushed to the ground. The encounter took place on June 21 at Wilde Kingdom Early Learning Center in Fairfield, Ohio, where day care employee James Ciolino is depicted harming the unidentified girl in the video obtained by Local 12 News.
Ciolino was watching ten children at the time when the little girl, who is Black, walked off with another class. Then when the former employee Stephanie Miller yelled at Ciolino to come retrieve the child, he shut his classroom door. This incident was captured on video. Miller opened the door and shoved the girl into the classroom. Then when Ciolino, who is reportedly 6 ft tall and around 315 pounds, placed both of his hands on her chest and pushed the little girl to the ground. She quickly began to cry and Miller stood by and did nothing.
The video shows Ciolino didn’t immediately tend to the girl and allowed her to cry for about a minute before picking her up by the waist and carrying her to the front office. A third teacher who came into the room after the shoving stayed in the class.
Both employees were only working there for a month and were let go after the video was reviewed. The school’s director, Lisa McMillion, told the news station the day of the incident. “The video itself has all the truth it needs in it. As soon as you watch that or as soon as you see that, you know immediately what has to be done,” she explained.
“You just know something is not right with that cry,” McMillion said, “As a mom, you know when something is not right. As a director, I know all of those children, and I know how they cry.”
The girl’s mom, Ernestine Pumah, talked about her outrage after the incident. “I cried. I couldn’t hold it. I was so heartbroken,” she said.
“The guy just pushed her away like an animal. A little baby who knows nothing, who all she knows is life is just to play, eat and sleep, you push her down on her chest, and she’s lying down crying, and you are still doing what you were doing. What a heartless man,” she added. McMillion filed charges against both individuals and they were both arrested. Both pleaded not guilty and are set to go to trial in December.
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