Hickman daycare worker arrested for allegedly spraying 3-year-old in face with soap-water solution
HICKMAN - The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office arrested a daycare worker after she sprayed a child in the face with a soap-water filled solution.
According to Chief Deputy Ben Houchin, authorities were dispatched to Tree House Child Development Center in Hickman for an incident involving possible child abuse.
Upon arriving to the scene, deputies learned that a 3-year-old child had been sprayed in the face with a soap water solution three different times. Houchin said 29-year-old Courtney Anderson sat the 3-year-old in the corner and then took the bottle and sprayed it in the child's facial area.
Investigators said surveillance video showed the child reacting.
Anderson then wiped down a table to clean it, after cleaning the table investigators said she went and sprayed the child again in the face, then sprayed the child a third time.
The child's eyes were red and irritated that evening, but the child is doing better.
Anderson was arrested for felony child abuse