Toddler Dies After Day Care Employee Sits on Bean Bag Chair He Was Playing Under Leonardo Sanchez would have been 2 on Sept. 17. A grieving mother is seeking answers after her 1-year-old child died under a bean bag chair when a day care employee sat on it while reading to the other children. Little Leonardo “Leo” Sanchez would have turned 2 on September 17. Instead, his Utah family will bury him on that day, they said. Read: 600 Marijuana Plants Discovered Growing Behind Connecticut Day Care: Cops “In my mind, my child is under your care. He suffocated under a bean bag. How does a 2-year-old, not even 2 yet, how does he get stuck under a bean bag? I don’t know what,” mother Danielle Sanchez told KSTU-TV. “He was a cute bundle of joy. He brought a lot of love,” the mom said. According to police, Leo was underneath the bean bag when an unidentified worker sat down to read a book. The child suffocated, authorities said. Police said they are examining video footage from inside the facility.
The employee has not been charged. “It just baffles me, makes me wonder. She must not have felt him, she must not have heard him,” the boy’s mother said. The West Jordan Child Center issued a statement, saying “We regret deeply the tragic death of a young toddler at our day care facility. No words adequately describe the depth of the sorrow we feel. “And, of course, we do not pretend to understand how devastating this is for the family. We know the family well, we grieve with them, and we pray that God will provide them the comfort and peace they inevitably will need.” Read: Day Care Center Shuttered After 3-Month-Old Died On Her Mother's First Day Back at Work According to the Utah Office of Children’s Licensing, the day care has been cited twice in the past five years, the station reported. One citation was for lack of supervision in the patio area. The other was for a fence hole that was big enough for a child to slip through. The licensing office is also investigating the boy’s death.
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$500 minimum purchase and minimum monthly payments are required (excluding sales tax, shipping, and other discounts). One-year-old child dies after becoming trapped beneath bean bag being used by daycare employee as they read to other children 'He was a cute bundle of joy. He brought a lot of love.' Tuesday 13 September 2016 14:12 BST On Saturday, what would have been Leonardo Sanchez's second birthday, his family will not have the party they had planned. Instead, they will hold a funeral. In a tragedy that unfolded in a matter of minutes at a day-care center in West Jordan, a suburb to the southwest of Salt Lake City, Danielle Sanchez lost her son. "He was a cute bundle of joy," Sanchez said to Salt Lake City's Fox 13. "He brought a lot of love." — FOX 13 News Utah (@fox13) September 10, 2016 Sanchez left Leonardo at West Jordan Child Center on Sept. 8. It would mark the last moment she saw her son alive. Around noon, the toddler was playing with other children at the center -- not unusual for a boy who, according to his mother, was always the life of the party.
He crept beneath a bean bag chair at the day-care center to hide, according to West Jordan police who later reviewed security camera footage from that day. An employee of the center, seemingly unaware of Leonardo's whereabouts, then sat on top of the chair. Why the employee did not notice Leonardo, or the child's apparent absence from the room, is unclear. "I'm just confused," Sanchez said to NBC affiliate KSL. "I'm so confused on how you don't know where my kid is. How do you not feel him? How do you not hear him scream?" She said that police told her that, for several minutes, the employee sat on the chair and read to other children. Sgt. Joe Monson, with the West Jordan police, called the incident a tragic accident. Police say Leonardo was under the chair for up to 15 minutes before the day-care center noticed he was missing. He suffocated beneath the chair and was discovered unconscious. Responders attempted to resuscitate the toddler at the day care, the Saint Louis Tribune reported.
He was pronounced dead at Salt Lake City's Primary Children's Hospital later that night. On Friday, Dan Sanchez, the boy's father, told KUTV that the day-care needed to change its practices and be held accountable. "We regret deeply the tragic death of a young toddler at our day care facility. No words adequately describe the depth of the sorrow we feel. And, of course, we do not pretend to understand how devastating this is for the family," West Jordan Child Center said in a statement Friday through its attorney Barry Johnson. As Johnson told KSL: "We know the family well, we grieve with them, and we pray that God will provide them the comfort and peace they inevitably will need." The day-care center had two violations in the previous five years, according to a spokesman for the Utah Department of Health's child-care licensing program; in one instance, children were left unsupervised. The department is investigating the circumstances of Leonardo's death. As of Friday, no charges had been filed against the unnamed employee.