BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
STARKE— Florida’s Department of Children and Families suspended the license of Bradford Preschool and Learning Center Inc. Friday evening.
The suspension comes after a parent complained earlier this month of a child allegedly mistreated at the Washington Street facility.
Makala Proctor told a Gainesville television station that daycare worker Regina Mann pushed her son down to the ground three times, then restrained the two-year-old.
Starke police said DCF’s investigation revealed administrative code violations observed through video footage obtained from the daycare in August.
One facility employee was arrested in 2015 for child abuse and culpable negligence resulting in injury, but charges were dropped after she fulfilled a pretrial intervention agreement.
According to an arrest report, a witness told Starke police that Robyn Bryant grabbed a 4-year-old by the throat and picked him up, then dropped the child by a door and kicked him out into the playground.
Arresting officer Mark Lowery wrote in the 2015 report that the victim told him: “Miss Robyn choked me and kicked me out.”
The Bradford Preschool and Learning Center Inc. playground was empty after the state suspended the facility’s license.
A Florida DCF notice on the door of Bradford Preschool and Learning Center Inc. informing parents of the state agency suspending the license of the preschool.
