VA - Maxx, 5 months, swaddled, placed on stomach & not checked on for 3 hours, King George, 21 Feb ‘23 *daycare worker charges*

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On Feb. 21 at 2:15 p.m., the King George County Sheriff’s Office received a call on an infant CPR in progress from C&A Daycare and Preschool.

Law enforcement and EMS responded, and the child was found unresponsive and taken to the hospital. The child was later pronounced dead.

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According to the sheriff’s office, the infant care portion of the daycare has been suspended following the incident.

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For weeks, the boy's mother said she was left wondering what happened to her son until she learned charges were being filed against two Virginia day care workers.

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Maxx Wilson
"I can always remember coming home from work and him being right there," Wilson said. "And when he'd hear my voice, he'd take a break and look up at me and he'd just smile."

But recounting the joyful moments also brings a painful reminder that his young life was gone too soon.

“I still cry when I look through his pictures. That’s probably the hardest part for me," Hamlet said

It was Feb. 21 when Hamlet and Wilson got the call that 5-month-old Maxx suffered an emergency while at C&A Daycare in King George County.

“She said they checked on Maxx, and he wasn't breathing. So, I hung up, and I got there in probably two minutes," Hamlet said. “I actually walked in, and he was on one of the tables... and one of the staff members was giving him CPR.”

Emergency crews arrived shortly after and rushed Maxx to a hospital.

That's where Maxx was pronounced dead.

"And in that moment, I kind of felt helpless. Definitely, I felt anger, confusion," Wilson said. "I'm trying to understand how this happened and why.”

Their 'perfect' infant died after emergency at Virginia daycare. Staff didn't check on the child for 3 hours.

Kasey Hamlet and Trevin Wilson hold close the five months of memories they had with their son Maxx. But recounting the joyful moments also brings a painful reminder...

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A Social Services inspection analyzed video footage from the day Maxx died and found staff swaddled him, laid him in a crib on his stomach, put two blankets over top of him and his head, and did not check on him for more than three hours.

“Swaddling him, binding his movement as a five-month-old, should have never happened," said Kasey Hamlet, Maxx's mother, during an interview with CBS 6 in July.

Once staff did check on Maxx, his body was limp and cold. The child was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The medical examiner's office ruled Maxx's cause of death was complications from COVID-19 and adenovirus.

The same Social Services report also detailed staff being forceful with other children including grabbing their faces and necks to force them to lay down and causing one child to hit their head on the crib.

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Two daycare employees, Tiffany Roy and Arlene Blanchard, were charged with felony child neglect in connection to the investigation.

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Eight months after an infant died at a King George County daycare and preschool, which sparked a child neglect investigation, the childcare center will officially be shutting down.

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