Johnson County prosecutors charged Jeanette L. Lawrence with involuntary manslaughter in the death April 2009 death of a child at the Olathe daycare she ran at 16012 W. 148th Terrace.
Lawrence was also charged with aggravated endangering a child and a violation of registered daycare regulations.
Good report from Fox 4 on the case in which a family friend of the victim says 18-month-old Ava Patrick pushed a chair to a fence separating toddlers and babies at the daycare, stood on the chair, fell and got her neck stuck between the fence's slates. Patrick was strangled to death. A complaint filed with the state accuses Lawrence of operating a daycare with more children than her daycare was allowed to care for. Fox 4 reports that Lawrence's daycare license was suspended but she ignored the suspension and kept running her daycare.
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@J lict, Lawrence was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated endangerment of a child, and a violation of a family day care regulation in the death of Ava Patrick. http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/20...
You know people are fast to throw the book at someone who they know nothing about. This woman has done Daycare for years with no problem. People have stated statements of assumption. What happened to innocent till proven quilty and our Judicial system has it's glitches. Accidents do happen but heck everyone is quick to throw the book at someone before getting the exact truth. Our society is so quick to just lock people up.
Throw the book at this woman. Kansas rarely shows concern for the welfare of children, anyway. This woman, as per the way many Kansas schools and daycares behave, IGNORED the fact that her licsence was suspended and KEPT OPERATING? Just who does she think she is?? Kansas needs to start taking these things seriously. As for me, I will NOT be trusting the schools or any daycare here in Kansas to take my childrens' safety seriously.
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