Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Four former day-care workers charged
MEMPHIS --Four former day care workers, including one with a record of rape, have been charged with reckless endangerment after a 5-year-old girl was left unattended on a van for more than nine hours.
If convicted, Carlos Peppers, Alverines Gribble, Sharon Griggs and Kimberly May could face up to a year in jail.
Karlissia Singleton escaped serious injury March 8 when she was left alone on the van at Darrell's Around the Clock Learning Center.
Peppers, the van's d
iver, ''knowingly disregarded'' state rules when he did not walk through the vehicle to make sure every child got off, according to police affidavits.
Authorities also claim
Peppers altered the day-care center's records to make it look like the girl w
as not aboard. The transportation log that day listed Karlissia as getting on the van at 5:30 a.m. and getting off at 6:16 a.m. An attendance log showed her as absent.
Griggs, as the center's assistant director, was charged because she failed to make sure the transportation log was accurate, police said. Bus driver May, assigned as the van's ''triple-checker,'' also failed to perform her duties, according to the affidavit.
Police records show that Peppers once worked at the Shelby County Jail as a deputy jailer and was convicted in 2001 for the rape of a male inmate. That conviction did not appear on any backgroun
d check when he was interviewed for the job.
The center already has been fined $1,500 and its transportation license revoked by the state Department of Human Services for leaving Karliss
ia a
lone.
Authorities said pleasant weather may have saved the child's life.
An initial court appearance on the charges is set for
today.
**************
What's that smell?!?
T.N.B.
Four former day-care workers charged
MEMPHIS --Four former day care workers, including one with a record of rape, have been charged with reckless endangerment after a 5-year-old girl was left unattended on a van for more than nine hours.
If convicted, Carlos Peppers, Alverines Gribble, Sharon Griggs and Kimberly May could face up to a year in jail.
Karlissia Singleton escaped serious injury March 8 when she was left alone on the van at Darrell's Around the Clock Learning Center.
Peppers, the van's d
iver, ''knowingly disregarded'' state rules when he did not walk through the vehicle to make sure every child got off, according to police affidavits.
Authorities also claim
Peppers altered the day-care center's records to make it look like the girl w
as not aboard. The transportation log that day listed Karlissia as getting on the van at 5:30 a.m. and getting off at 6:16 a.m. An attendance log showed her as absent.
Griggs, as the center's assistant director, was charged because she failed to make sure the transportation log was accurate, police said. Bus driver May, assigned as the van's ''triple-checker,'' also failed to perform her duties, according to the affidavit.
Police records show that Peppers once worked at the Shelby County Jail as a deputy jailer and was convicted in 2001 for the rape of a male inmate. That conviction did not appear on any backgroun
d check when he was interviewed for the job.
The center already has been fined $1,500 and its transportation license revoked by the state Department of Human Services for leaving Karliss
ia a
lone.
Authorities said pleasant weather may have saved the child's life.
An initial court appearance on the charges is set for
today.
**************
What's that smell?!?
T.N.B.
