Parents outraged after their daughter, 1, left daycare covered in bite marks

Parents of a one-year-old girl were horrified when they found their daughter covered in bite marks after picking her up from daycare.

Rocio Enriquez and her husband, Rylee Usted, said their daughter, Mila, was bitten at least eight times at Sunrise Preschools in Maricopa, Arizona on Thursday.

Enriquez and Usted were informed by daycare staff that another toddler bit their daughter repeatedly just twenty minutes before they picked her up, leaving Mila traumatized and covered in red tooth prints.

Umsted told KGUN: ‘She was shaking and I knew she didn’t want to be there.’

The couple said they are not satisfied with the daycare’s explanation of the incident and they condemned Sunrise Preschool staff for their response.

Enriquez said: ‘(A worker) told me there were three children in the classroom including my daughter. A teacher was changing a diaper…when another child went on top of her and started biting her.’

She added: ‘One bite mark that you look at you’d be like, she’d be screaming bloody murder. So I want to know if someone heard a scream, where was management?’

The couple said they were told the incident happened in approximately thirty seconds.

They also claimed that the ordeal was captured on video, but the daycare is not allowing them to look at the footage.

‘I can’t believe it until I see it,’ Enriquez said.

Usted echoed his wife’s disbelief and added: ‘We don’t know what to think because we don’t know the answer, but there’s a video out there that tells the truth.’

‘Sunrise should’ve either had two teachers in that room or they need different training,’ he said.

In a statement, Sunrise Preschools President Dana Vela said the caregiver who was responsible for the children has been suspended without pay while the incident is investigated.

Vela wrote: ‘This should not have happened. Only four children were under the supervision of the caregiver watching the children. That caregiver has been suspended without pay pending further investigation.’

‘After the child was injured first aid was administered, and the parents of the injured child were informed. The child who bit the classmate was expelled. While there is established protocol to address occasional biting behavior common to many toddlers, the severity of the incident demanded a more appropriate response.’