Lady charged over Kingston, MA day care toddler assault allegations – NBC Boston

A lady needed for allegedly assaulting toddlers at her in-home day care in Kingston, Massachusetts, turned herself in for arrest Friday, police mentioned.

Quickly after Kingston police requested for assist discovering Karen Rezendes, the 51-year-old turned herself in, the division mentioned. They requested that any mother or father whose youngster attended Oh Nana’s Daycare in Kingston and suspects they’d been abused attain out to police.

Investigators obtained a warrant for Rezendes’ arrest on suspicion of assault and battery on Thursday, police mentioned. They’d discovered that she bodily abused kids in her care, together with locking a toddler in an attic, hitting a toddler with kitchen instruments, shoving a toddler and extra.

The youngsters’s ages ranged from 1 to 4, Kingston police mentioned.

Their investigation concerned video proof, witness interviews and extra. It was carried out with the Kids’s Advocacy Middle on the Plymouth County District Legal professional’s Workplace, they usually famous that the state’s departments of Kids and Households and Early Training and Care carried out their very own investigations, main Oh Nana’s Daycare to lose its license.

Rezendes was due in courtroom Friday afternoon. It wasn’t instantly clear if she had an legal professional who might converse to the allegations.

Police cited the position that witnesses have performed of their investigation in asking mother and father who have not but spoken to them to come back ahead and converse to Det. Zachary Francis at ZFrancis@kpdmass.org or 781-585-0523 ext. 6649.

“In case your youngster attended this daycare, you haven’t spoken to a detective, and also you now suspect abuse, we wish to hear from you. Did your youngster make allegations of abuse that you just first thought have been outlandish, or did your youngster come residence with accidents that have been alleged to have been from harmless trigger however have been solely witnessed by the defendant? They might have been the victims of bodily abuse,” police mentioned.