Sentenced: 1 Charged, 2 Fired For Binding 1YO With Painters Tape At Over The Rainbow Children's Center

[Sugar Cookie]

One woman is facing a criminal charge of child endangering after she and another person were fired from a Pataskala daycare center for allegedly abusing a child. Katelyn Strohacker, 23, is accused of using painter's tape to bind a one-year-old. The other person who was fired was not identified.

Investigators say parents of the child told them about the abuse on August 7, saying their little girl was abused at the Over the Rainbow Children's Center.

Deputies arrested Strohacker. Investigators said she put painters' tape on the child’s eyes, legs and hands, and left her under a blanket, face-down, unattended for an hour. They said she admitted to doing this “on more than one occasion.”

No one from the daycare would go on camera, but said in a statement

“We became aware of an incident involving a former employee. As a result of the incident, both the employee and her supervisor have been terminated.”

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[Sugar Cookie]

I cannot stress enough that any daycare provider/worker who hurts a child in their care needs to get sentence to prison.

People who should never work with children need to be discouraged from taking these jobs and if knowing they can and will go to prison if they hurt a child may just make them re-think taking the job.

 

[HEREIBE22]

I cannot stress enough that any daycare provider/worker who hurts a child in their care needs to get sentence to prison.

People who should never work with children need to be discouraged from taking these jobs and if knowing they can and will go to prison if they hurt a child may just make them re-think taking the job.

This is exactly why I have never used a daycare center. I was fortunate enough that my 1st husband's grandma would watch our child and even my kids with my 2nd husband. I didn't trust my kids with anyone that didn't love them. I thankfully have avoided prison when it comes to my own child. My daughter has used private party babysitter's but I freak out about it. My grandson is non-verbal autistic. He is a beautiful boy (everyone says so it's not just because he is mine lol) but he is hyper and loud. He says "Eeeeeee." I have nightmares about someone hurting him. I have seen my daughter flip out on people for making comments about him. My daughter is a non-confrontational woman and she is quiet (don't know where she learned these traits). When it comes to her son... I get scared of her lol!

 

[BBBLUE77]

She looks as if she smells like dust and dirty band-aids.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

An Ohio daycare worker is headed to prison after she admitted to wrapping "painter's tape" around the eyes, feet and hands of a 1-year-old girl while also abusing other young children to the point where they began having "sleep issues" and "night terrors."

Katelyn Strohacker, 23, was sentenced Friday to serve eight to 12 years in prison after she pleaded no contest to 31 counts of kidnapping and child endangerment for multiple incidents at Over the Rainbow Children's Center in Pataskala, according to online court records.

Strohacker was accused of abusing at least eight children, including the 1-year-old girl she allegedly restrained with painter's tape to "administer corporal punishment or other physical disciplinary measure" in a "cruel manner," according to prosecutors. She admitted to using the tape to bind the girl on multiple occasions.

"Only a soulless monster would be capable of abusing defenseless children," said parent Taylor Pineda at Strohacker's sentencing, local CBS affiliate WBNS reports. "The same children you took responsibility for when you became a daycare employee," Pineda told her.

Another father, Ryan Freehafer, said, "My daughter, who had always been joyful and happy, began telling us she was a bad girl, and she would shut down in tears after any correction. My daughter was conditioned by a predatory monster who I dropped her off to each day and will now spend the rest of her childhood trying to rebuild from."

"The defendant placed painter's tape on [the child's] eyes, taped [the child's] hands behind her back, and taped [the child's] feet together, leaving [the child] face down under a blanket unattended," prosecutors alleged in a bill of particulars detailing allegations against Strohacker. "Detectives continued to investigate the defendant's behavior by reviewing voluminous amounts of video from her prior shifts dating back to a surveillance retention date of July 7, 2025, and video up to August 7, 2025. Law enforcement discovered that the Defendant had done this on at least four prior occasions to [the child], including one incident on July 17, 2025, in which she taped [the child's] hands behind her head and stepped her foot on [the child's] shoulder and neck area."

Strohacker "terrorized" the 1-year-old girl while she was restrained "by acting aggressively and forcefully with the child when she would move her feet," the filing said. "This included yanking the toddler around or acting in a threatening manner," according to prosecutors.

Strohacker targeted seven other children in the monthlong time frame during which surveillance video was kept. One incident that involved a 2-year-old and was captured on video from July 11, 2025, showed Strohacker "purposely shut the victim's finger in a cabinet door," according to prosecutors. Four of Strohacker's victims were seen, evaluated, and treated by multidisciplinary teams at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

"These children, who suffered serious physical harm as a result of the defendant's abuse, have experienced sleep issues/night terrors, separation anxiety, and behavioral issues," prosecutors said in a court filing.

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Daycare worker who forced child's eyes shut with painter's tape, abused 8 kids learns fate

Katelyn Strohacker, 23, of Ohio, was sentenced last week after taping up and hurting kids at the day care where she worked.

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[Busy Bee]

These persons should be held to a higher standard! They are, hired to care for children, teach them life skills!! Things such as patience, manners, how to treat others well!! What even made her think that harsh pysical treatment, binding them with tape was an option !! NO!! Poor children, obviously they are scared of her, night terrors!! Glad they gave her prison time!! In the end, I truly believe that you are paid back for those actions!! May not be today or tomorrow but you will be paid for that!!