3 Day care workers charged with abusing child
CONNELLSVILLE – Police have charged three local day care center workers with endangering the welfare of children after they allegedly overmedicated a child while he was in their care at the center. Crystal Dawn Eutsey, 40, of 106 N. Cottage Ave., Ashley Dawn Liston, 20, of 115 Broadway Ave. and Gina Marie Kimmel, 20, of 331 Narrows Road are accused of giving multiple doses of the medication to the child rather than the prescribed amount.
According to the complaint filed by police, the medication was to be given three times during the child’s eight-hour stay at the Discovery Time Day Care Center.
Police said the child’s mother brought him to the Fairview Avenue child-care center at 9 a.m. and entered his name on the medical log, noting the medicine was to be given at 10:54 a.m., 1:45 p.m. and 4:44 p.m. at a dose of .7 milliliter.
According to the complaint, Liston gave the child .7 milliliter of the medication at 9:15 a.m. and at 4:45 p.m. while Kimmel held him.
Eutsey administered 7 milliliter of medicine to the child at 10:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. while Kimmel held him, said police.
When the mother arrived at 5:30 p.m., she found the child to be listless and took him to Highlands Hospital, where physicians determined the daycare workers had administered 41 doses of the medication, police said.
Stephanie Griffith, director of the day-care center, declined to comment on the August incident.
When asked if Eutsey, Liston and Kimmel still worked at the center, Griffith said they had been fired in October.
“They are absolutely not working here,” she said, adding that the incident took place before she took over as the center’s director.
A preliminary hearing in the matter is scheduled for Nov. 21 before District Justice Ronald Haggerty.