Mother of 8-Year-Old Boy Speaks Out About Day Care Incident

WAUKESHA, WI — The mother of an 8-year-old boy has reached out to Waukesha Patch this morning to tell her side of the story after an incident involving her son at a local daycare.

According to police reports, staff at La Casa called Waukesha police and asked for officers to stand by on Monday and keep the peace while they had a meeting with a Waukesha mother over a situation that happened last Friday.

According to the mother, at Monday's meeting, she was informed that she and her son were banned from the daycare and the mother was advised on local trespassing ordinances following Friday's incident.

Friday

On Friday, police reported that a mother had been upset because a male employee touched her second-grade son's shoulders, instructing him to sit down and drink his milk. Police determined that the touching was not inappropriate. The interaction was also witnessed by another staff member.

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But according to the boy's mother Nicole Enlow, there's more to the story, stating that her son was forced to drink a glass of warm milk. Here is Enlow's account in her own words, "I was told he was sitting in a chair and did not want to drink his milk because it was warm. The teacher reacted by physically grabbing my son by his shoulder - close to his neck - and then tilting his chair back where his feet did not touch the ground anymore. [He] continued to tell my son to drink it. My son refused, so he pressed his shoulder harder and told him to drink it again. He said no and my son told me he repeated it going harder and harder about 20 times."

Enlow told Patch she spoke with the owners of La Casa Daycare, but felt her complaints did not go anywhere, and feels the daycare was trying to diminish the situation. Enlow admitted that frustrations over how she feels her son was treated led her to speak angrily to one of the daycare's employees. "[The] next thing you know, I was banned from the daycare because i supposedly threatened the teacher," she told Patch.

Enlow said the situation has been hard for her son to endure, "He is sad and he misses his friends," she said.

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