An infant died at a daycare in King George County in February. Two people have been charged with felony child neglect but authorities are continuing to investigate.

Around 2:15 p.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 21, law enforcement and EMS members were called to C & A Daycare and Preschool located at 5254 Potomac Drive in the Dahlgren area of the county for a reported “Infant CPR in progress.”

 Upon their arrival, responders found a five-month-old boy unresponsive. After receiving CPR from emergency personnel, the infant was taken to a nearby hospital where it was pronounced dead at 3:20 p.m.

The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) reviewed footage recorded by the center as part of an inspection completed on March 3.

At 10:49 a.m. on Feb. 21, a staff member can be seen swaddling the infant, placing him on his stomach in his crib and covering him with two blankets. After leaving the infant at 10:53 a.m., staff cannot be seen checking on him again until 2:10 p.m. — over three hours later. The video reportedly shows the child moving until 12:27 p.m.

Staff from this daycare center can be seen handling children, roughly throwing them in their cribs, and putting multiple blankets over their heads. Sadly, this daycare was allowed to re-open with a restriction of being allowed to care for infants but that isn’t good enough! Let’s stand together to have this daycare center close down for good before any more of our beloved children are harmed.

You can find the recent DDS report linked below https://dss.virginia.gov/facility/search/cc2.cgi