Family trawling daycare surveillance for their child's missing shoe uncover unspeakable abuse

A Texas daycare idiosyncratic was charged with kid maltreatment aft schoolhouse officials witnessed an atrocious onslaught while reviewing surveillance footage to look for a student's missing shoe.

Geraline Browning, 46, was allegedly caught connected camera grabbing children by the throat, shaking them, and pushing them to the ground at the YMCA Childcare Development Center wrong Northwest Elementary School successful Pflugerville.

The shocking maltreatment was discovered successful February 2024 erstwhile schoolhouse officials reviewed information footage portion searching for the missing shoe, reported CBS Austin.

The archetypal reported maltreatment - recovered connected footage from February 21, 2024 - allegedly showed Browning grabbing a miss by her limb and aboriginal holding the aforesaid kid by her neck, shaking her twice.

Further probe revealed respective different incidents of alleged maltreatment by Browning towards multiple children ranging from ages 2 to three.

One video from February 7, 2024, reportedly showed Browning grabbing a miss astir the cervix and thorax and carrying her to a napping country earlier laying her face-down connected a mat.  

In different incident, Browning allegedly grabbed a kid by the cervix and scolded them portion holding their cervix for six seconds on February 12, 2024.

On February 20, 2024, Browning was reportedly filmed grabbing a kid by the cervix from behind, spinning them astir 180 degrees and forcing them to the level earlier walking off. 

On the aforesaid day, Browning allegedly grabbed that aforesaid kid by the cervix and collarbone with some hands earlier aggressively placing them connected the floor, past grabbing them disconnected the level from underneath their arms and aggressively placing them connected a chair, according to the documents viewed by section quality outlets.

Additional video showed Browning allegedly walking into that aforesaid child, causing them to autumn and deed their caput connected a cabinet. 

She reportedly walked distant without checking connected the kid and, later, was caught connected camera yanking the aforesaid kid by the limb disconnected a bath stool and putting them connected the floor.

Browning was criminally charged this past March, and families of 3 of the victims person filed a lawsuit against the YMCA of Central Texas successful January, accusing them of negligence for not catching the incidents, according to KVUE.

'All of these shocking admissions that person travel to airy was confirmed by surveillance footage, which showed and exposed a caregiver's signifier of disturbing and unsafe subject methods against 2- and 3-year-old toddlers,' said the victims' lawyer Russel Button.

'It's heart-wrenching, and it's conscionable rather frankly – it's alarming, and it needs to beryllium stopped.' 

The victims' suit seeks damages exceeding $1 cardinal and claims the YMCA of Central Texas didn't occurrence Browning until aft Pflugerville ISD Police got involved.

The YMCA denied that assertion and told the section quality presumption that Browning was instantly suspended erstwhile the enactment recovered retired astir the allegations.

The YMCA said aft it reviewed 'evidence of carnal aggression directed astatine respective of our students,' it terminated Browning's employment.

'The well-being of our students is our utmost priority,' the YMCA said. 

'We travel the state's guidelines connected information and tally extended inheritance checks earlier hiring employees. The YMCA of Central Texas is committed to ensuring the safest imaginable situation for our families.'