A second child has reportedly been injured at the Palmerston North daycare that looked after a toddler who died from an apparent head injury, with the centre receiving death threats over last year’s tragedy.
Sarah Jacobsen picked up her unconscious daughter Ava-Rose, who is not yet one, from Little Monkeys Preschool on Monday after staff had called and said she had been injured on her first day, the NZ Herald reported.
"She had blood on her nose and a bump on her head and she was fast 'asleep'," she wrote on Facebook.
"I rushed her into the doctor's and said she won't wake up, so they called the ambulance and doctors and nurses rushed in. I have never been so scared in my life!”
Centre owner Jenny Hall said Ava-Rose was hurt when another child bumped into her as she tried to climb up a slide, "a common accident that happens in every daycare".
"She received a bump to the head and small cut lip at 11.14am. She wasn't knocked unconscious," she said.
The centre owner added that she encouraged Ms Jacobsen to take Ava-Rose to take her to the doctor, but Ms Jacobson says Ms Hall did not.
"I asked for their opinion and the teachers exact words was, 'Honestly we wouldn't even call a parent on a accident like that, we only rung because it was her first day'."
Ms Hall also issued a statement on the death of Lorenzo Miranda saying no staff witnessed the 20-month-old fall before his death last November from a brain bleed.
"On this last day at Little Monkeys, his behaviour could best be described as normal," she said.
"At no point was there any indication he had suffered a head injury, or, in fact, any injury."
"Lorenzo's passing was a tragedy. We understand that people grieve in different ways and we have nothing but love and good thoughts for Beaudene and Ricardo.
"We are so sorry they had to go through this unimaginable horror but we will carry Lorenzo and his parents in our hearts always."
According to Ms Hall, the Education Ministry put Little Monkeys on a probationary licence after they received a complaint from an extended family member.
"As is their process, they put us on a probationary licence and a day later we had a full licensing inspection," she said.
Ms Hall said after some small things, including a garden path rope that was too thin, were fixed, Little Monkeys was returned to a full licence.
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