Day Care Shuts Down After Teacher Is Accused of 25 Counts of Physical and Sexual Abuse of Children

A day care was asked to shut down by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services after a teacher was accused of physical and sexual abuse of children.

The Boomer Kids Club in the city of Woodward agreed to the request on Friday according to KFOR-TV.

Woodward Police Department Capt. Darren Navratil said that 19-year-old Tyler Kniest was accused of abusing children while working at the day care. . .

“We did come up with about a total of, including the original eight incidences of child sexual abuse, and about sixteen instances of physical abuse,” said Navratil. “Some of them were repeated on the same children.” . . .

Kniest was arrested in December and charged with 25 criminal counts, including the sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl that was caught on video. (Read more from “Day Care Shuts Down After Teacher Is Accused of 25 Counts of Physical and Sexual Abuse of Children” HERE)

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