Linkedin Share
News

Female Day Care Owner Gets Off Easy After Allegedly Sexually Abusing Children From 7 Months To Five-Years-Old

Linkedin Share

The owner of a day care in Ohio will only spend 30 days behind bars after being accused of sexually abusing the children left under her care. The victims range in ages between seven months to five-years-old.

This is a true miscarriage of justice.

via TheBlaze:

Kimberly Hignite of Grove City was accused of abusing at least five children in her care, according to WBNS-TV. Hignite ran the unlicensed day care out of her Ohio home and had as many as 24 children in her care at any given time. Hignite’s 71-year-old mother was reportedly watching the children when authorities arrested the day care owner in May.

Police said several children, between 7 months and 5 years old, were left unaccompanied in empty rooms, strapped into child car seats.

Trending:
Massive Migrant Caravan Marches Toward US with LGBT Flags Flying as Mexican President Snubs Biden at Summit

Prosecutors say that at least three children suffered sexual abuse by Hignite, who reportedly forced them to play the “silly private game,” which apparently involved sexual touching.

One mother told the court, “Miss Kim forced them to play using a tan and blue game board with pictures of private parts and a red spinner. Your Honor, the sound of my autistic son and little girl being able to describe what that grown woman’s vagina looks like and feels like is something we regrettably will never be able to forget, and honestly something I can never forgive.”

Another mother added, “One of my girls developed an anxiety-driven hair-pulling habit to the point that she was nearly bald. My heart breaks anytime I think about how my children were left alone, strapped into their car seats, crying.”

Another mom said her infant was left in her winter snowsuit the whole day and left strapped in her car seat. The poor child was dehyrdated, sweating, hungry, and had serious diaper rashes to the point of bleeding, which required medical treatment.

Hignite struck a plea deal that required her to pay for her jailing and a $4,200 fine. The prosecutors in the case stated the reason Hignite got off so light was because many of the charges were dropped due to several families being uncooperative during the investigation.

As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop charges of gross sexual impositions if Hignite would plead guilty to 14 counts of child endangerment.

One mother said they accepted the plea deal because they didn’t want this woman to have another moment from her children’s lives.

At the end of the day, someone like Hignite absolutely deserves to either spend the rest of her life in prison or be put to death. In fact, really, child molestation should be a capital crime. It’s horrid that it’s not.

Submit a Correction →



Tags:
, , , ,
Linkedin Share

Conversation