ABC15 taking action after a Maryvale preschool worker is caught on camera getting at, belittling, even shoving and kicking a child.
In the video obtained by ABC15, the unidentified employee at Amigo Preschool at 71st Avenue and Indian School, yells "Get out of my face. Go." She then shoves a seated child so hard, he's knocked from the chair. As multiple children appear to be crying, the woman than drags the child in the chair to the side of the room, and kicks it to stay put.
"It's hard when you are a single parent when you have to leave your kids at daycare, and you have to trust those employees to take care of them, and they're not doing their job," said mother Marisol Valencia, who withdrew her children from the preschool after seeing the video.
ABC15 showed the video to preschool managers Thursday afternoon.
"I'm taking care of the problem now," said preschool director Christina Samarripas. "I've heard her where she's raised her voice, but to do something like this - oh, no. This is done."
Samarippas walked to the back of the school. She returned a few minutes later saying, "I fired her; she's gone."
If you would like to check your child's daycare, visit the Arizona Department of Health Services website.
