Kami Tollefson should not be watching children, 3 serious injuries, 3 different kids

[Jessiesgirl1108]

Kami Tollefson was charged with three counts of child abuse for allegedly hurting three children who were in her care at three different times.

The Salt Lake County District Attorney's office filed the charges on Monday afternoon. Tollefson was arrested at her Murray home where she reportedly provides daycare to several children according to Murray police detective Kenny Bass.

Charging documents state that Tollefson allegedly injured a 16-month-old boy on June 24, 2008. The court documents say that when the child's parents dropped him off at Tollefson's house for daycare "he was in good health." When the parent picked the boy up, he was "pale and was groaning in pain."

According to the charging documents, Tollefson allegedly told detectives that the boy fell backwards. A doctor determined that the boy suffered "massive blunt force trauma to his abdomen." The doctor said as a result, the boy's pancreas was damaged and part of the pancreas had to be removed. The doctor also said had the boy not been take to the emergency room, he would have died.

The charges also state that on April 13, 2009, another parent dropped off her 18-month-old boy at Tollefson's house for daycare. The child developed what Tollefson allegedly called a "rash" on the side of his face. A doctor later concluded that the boy had hemorrhages on his neck and face that "were consistent with attempted suffocation or strangulation" by an adult person.

Bass said both of the above incidents were investigated by police, but when officers presented the cases to the District Attorney's Office, it was determined there was not enough evidence to file charges. Everything changed after 14-month-old HaLee Miller was hospitalized on February 12th of this year.

That day, HaLee's mother Shandee picked her daughter up from Tollefson's house. Shandee said her little girl was not excited to see her as usual. Shandee notice her daughter was lethargic and also had very dilated pupils. Shandee said HaLee had been throwing up for days prior and threw up again that day on the ride home.

Shandee had taken her baby to the pediatrician several times before, but the doctor ran tests and said the vomiting was likely due to a flu or virus.

When HaLee threw up again on the ride home from the daycare, mom pulled over and called 911. Soon HaLee was flown to Primary Children's Medical Center where doctors told Shandee and her husband Steven Miller that their baby had a head injury with internal bleeding. HaLee also had retinal hemorrhages due to "violent rotational force being applied to (HaLee's ) head." The baby's parents say doctors told them she was a victim of shaken baby syndrome. "She's an angel. She's a good baby, there's no excuse for this," said an emotional Miller.

HaLee spent five days in the hospital. Doctors told her parents she might not see again and it was not clear how the head injury would affect her walking or other behaviors. On Monday, HaLee was happy and behaving like a normal toddler again. Her parents say her vision is getting better all the time.

Tollefson was booked into the Salt Lake county jail. Police say two of her own young children lived with her. It was presumed they were placed in custody of relatives.

Bass said Tollefson's daycare was not licensed, but it was not clear if that was because she was operating illegally or because she was exempt from licensing due to a small number of children in her care.

A representative from the Utah Department of Health said in the past, the Bureau of Child Care Licensing investigated a complaint about Tollefson's preschool which she also ran out of her house. It is not clear if any action resulted after that complaint.

http://connect2utah.com/content/fulltext/?cid=77941

 

[TwiztidAngel]

burn the bitch at the stake...

 

[koochie]

what the fuck!!!!!!!!
if my child had been hurt with this bitch i would have had signs all over her front yard....

what a disgrace.

 

[dmax]

Touching video: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9862181

 

[thehesbomb]

Reason number five million why my son's not in daycare and god willing he never will be. I would not have been able to leave this house without this bitch's blood on my hands.

 

[Saffron]

Again, this is an unlicensed daycare. Most licensed daycares are reasonably safe unless they've received a lot of complaints and they are usually on the verge of losing their license (which you can find out about).

 

[thehesbomb]

Most licensed daycares are reasonably safe unless they've received a lot of complaints and they are usually on the verge of losing their license (which you can find out about).

While that may be true it has not been my experience. The largest licensed daycare in my town which receives state benefits and is given as a resource for all WIC and welfare recipients tied my brother to a chair (with rope) when he was 2.5 years old because he wouldn't stay in time out. My brother also has PDD and did not even have the language skills to tell someone this was happening.

Luckily my sister was a teenager and had a part-time job on the other side of the daycare in the infant room. She was getting stuff from the supply closet and saw my brother tied up. Apparently it was not the first time they had done it.

I have never trusted daycare since.

ETA - they never faced disciplinary action, either. The state gave them notice that they were performing an inspection and everything was up to code when the inspectors came.

 

[Saffron]

Then that's your state and you should push for better legislation. My daughter was abused by a non-licensed daycare because I was under the impression that a home daycare would be more loving. WRONG. Home daycares don't get inspected ever (unless they are licensed and almost none are). They have scheduled inspections once a month and drop in inspections a minimum of once a week. They have personnel trained in the signs of abuse who go around to see if the children behave like they are abused.

You are a very lucky woman to be able to stay at home with your kids especially when you are getting a divorce. Most women have to work and have to rely on daycare. I do all I can to keep them in daycare as little as possible but I actually believe that I'm doing a disservice to my youngest because she'd get much more at daycare learning and interacting with the other kids than she does sitting on the couch watching Elmo with daddy on his two days off in the middle of the week.

If your mother had called the police, I guarantee something would have been done. Did she? Did you or your sister? Agencies can only do so much if there aren't people who report problems. I also talk to my kids and ask them how they were treated. Did that daycare have an open door policy? Or cameras? Most do now. No area of the daycare is off limits to ANY parent.

 

[jvaughn74]

Tollefson allegedly injured a 16-month-old boy on June 24, 2008.A doctor determined that the boy suffered "massive blunt force trauma to his abdomen." The doctor said as a result, the boy's pancreas was damaged and part of the pancreas had to be removed. The doctor also said had the boy not been take to the emergency room, he would have died.

April 13, 2009, another parent dropped off her 18-month-old boy at Tollefson's house for daycare. The child developed what Tollefson allegedly called a "rash" on the side of his face. A doctor later concluded that the boy had hemorrhages on his neck and face that "were consistent with attempted suffocation or strangulation" by an adult person.

both of the above incidents were investigated by police, but when officers presented the cases to the District Attorney's Office, it was determined there was not enough evidence to file charges.

Couple of comments...one..WTF???...why would the DA not find enough evidence to file charges???..and secondly..if this was a small daycare as it infers to in the article..do the parents not talk to one another. My kids go to the same in a licensed home daycare and have been for several years..there have been the same children there for years and all us daycare moms talk and know each other by name from dropping off and picking up..so just seems weird that these parents continued to take their children there after the other incidents. I am assuming that the other 2 children that were hurt before this third one did not take their child back to this monster!

 

[thehesbomb]

You are a very lucky woman to be able to stay at home with your kids especially when you are getting a divorce.

Whoa! If N's leaving me, I sure as hell didn't get the memo! I don't really "stay home" - I work from home in the morning and go into the office in the afternoon. I work full time (closer to 50 hours since I have th ejoy of being a salaried employee).

We are very fortunate to have my mom close by - L goes and stays with her for a couple of hours each afternoon. My post was not a judgment against parents that have to use daycare. I realize that we are blessed to be able to avoid doing so and that my scenario is not the norm.

My mother did call the police. They stated that it was a civil matter, at that point, since my mother had taken my little brother home. She went directly to DHHS and the licensing bureau who performed the "inspection". My sister was 16 and did not call the police, she called my mom. I was 10 at the time so obviously I did not call the police either.

This was...20 years ago. But STILL this daycare has reports of poorly trained and negligent staff. Just a couple of years ago a woman was fired after repeatedly screaming obscenities at the infants in the infant room!

 

[penelopejo]

This was...20 years ago. But STILL this daycare has reports of poorly trained and negligent staff. Just a couple of years ago a woman was fired after repeatedly screaming obscenities at the infants in the infant room!

Then that's a really shitty day care that obviously is only in it for the money and whatever else they get free from the government.

 

[Saffron]

Whoa! If N's leaving me, I sure as hell didn't get the memo! I don't really "stay home" - I work from home in the morning and go into the office in the afternoon. I work full time (closer to 50 hours since I have th ejoy of being a salaried employee).

I'm sorry, I got you confused with someone else.

 

[Whisper]

Trial Set for Babysitter Accused of Child Abuse
http://kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/trial-set-babysitter-accused-child-abuse-11056.shtml

 

[Sugar Cookie]

More than a decade after two babies in her care were rushed to emergency rooms, a Murray woman has admitted to reduced criminal charges tied to their injuries.

But Kami Kay Tollefson isn’t admitting that she was the one to strike or shake the kids, then a 16-month-old boy and 13-month-old girl.

As part of a plea deal that the children’s parents view as lenient, Kami Kay Tollefson pleaded guilty Monday in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court to two reduced counts of negligent child abuse, a class A misdemeanor.

Tollefson in both cases “had custody and care of a child and negligently allowed another to seriously injure the child,” her defense attorney Deborah Kreeck Mendez said. She did not provide details on who may have harmed the kids. The defense has previously argued the injuries could have resulted from accidents.

The boy, Isaak Crandall, was hit so hard by something while at the day care in 2008 that his pancreas split and he need emergency surgery. Tollefson said she had found the boy lying on the ground by a swing set, prosecutors have alleged.

The girl, HaLee Miller, suffered head trauma in Tollefson’s home in 2010, causing her brain to bleed and leaving her with detached retinas. Doctors concluded she had been violently shaken by someone of adult strength, causing bleeding in her brain.

As the children have grown and recovered from their injuries, the case has dragged on for more than a decade.

Utah day care owner pleads guilty, but isn’t admitting she was the one to injure 2 kids

Kami Kay Tollefson, a Murray woman who ran a day care, has admitted to reduced criminal charges tied to severe injuries that two kids sustained while in her care more than a decade ago. But Tollefson isn’t admitting that she was the one to strike or shake the kids.

www.deseret.com

Issac Crandall had part of his pancreas removed in June 2008 after his dad picked him up from day care and Issac was lethargic and not very responsive.

 

[Sejanus]

Kami Kay Kunt ís innocent!
It was the sofa in cahoots with the swing!