These 8 Heartbreaking Day Care Blunders Are Going to Make You Want to Be a SAHM in 2016

Karl Towndrow was just 3 months old when he was dropped off for his first day at SoHo Child Care — an unlicensed day care center in Brooklyn, NY — by his mother, who said she'd return in the middle of the day to nurse. Unfortunately, she never saw her child alive again, as Karl became unresponsive after being put down for a nap, and was pronounced dead at the hospital despite the day care worker's best efforts to perform CPR.

Jason and Rebecca Vannest had been sending their son William to Rainbow Child Care Center in Davison, MI, for over a year when a worker at the facility reached out to the family with a shocking photo. In the picture, 2-year-old William is swaddled in a blanket — something that the worker informed the Vannests was going on for a couple of months — in order to restrain him for a nap. The parents filed a report against the day care and said of the situation, "It's just scary as a parent because I don't know how another parent would find this out."

Back in August, Sharonda Ross was forced to break into her child's day care center after hours, once she and her husband realized that they'd both thought the other was going to pick up their son, 10-month-old Jordan, at the center. When they arrived, they could hear Jordan crying, but the parking lot was empty, so her husband broke the glass to get in and retrieve Jordan. The owner of the day care, Joann Davis, said at the time that she was "as sorry as she can be," but did not fire the employee that locked up for the night with baby Jordan still inside.

Two Oklahoma boys suffered severe second- and third-degree burns after spending hours outside at a local water park — which they attended with their day care — without any protection from the sun. Graphic photos of the boys' burns were posted to Facebook by their aunt, who said that the 5- and 7-year-old boys were in a lot of pain. The post caught the attention of news outlets but also sparked a conversation about childcare legislation, as many people commented that day cares are sometimes prohibited from putting sunscreen on a child unless their parent has brought it in for them, and even then, the child is required to apply it himself.

A former employee of a day care in Oklahoma contacted the Department of Human Services to inform them that the center was giving the children Benedryl to induce naps. Leslee Meade — whose 6-month-old son, Hendrix, was one of the seven victims — reported that her son would come home from day care unable to keep his eyes open. More and more employees came forward after to say that owner, Beverly Sue Stair, was ordering them to administer the drug, and the county sheriff recommended that charges be filed against Stair.