Jersey City, NJ – Day Care Center Worker Who Served Bleach Is Fired

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     Children from the Growing Tree Learning Center II daycare center in Jersey City, N.J., who accidentally ingested a mixture of water and bleach are placed on an EMT bus to be brought to the Jersey City Medical Center on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014.(AP Photo/The Jersey Journal, Joe Shine)Jersey City, NJ – The New Jersey day care center where more than two dozen children and adults were accidentally served bleach-tainted water has reopened, and an employee has been fired.

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    The parent company of the Growing Tree Learning II in Jersey City says the center opened Friday after several agencies probed Thursday’s incident.

    Twenty-eight children and two adults drank the water laced with bleach after an employee mistakenly used a bottle that was being used to clean off tables. They were treated at a hospital after complaining of nausea, lightheadedness and stomachaches. All were released Thursday afternoon.

    Keith Kearney is executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County, the day care center’s parent company. He says the employee has been fired.

    The state children’s welfare department is investigating.


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    DovidT
    DovidT
    9 years ago

    What about the employee who repurposed the bottle to begin with?

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    9 years ago

    What happened to the worker who put it in the bottle to begin with?

    birgas
    birgas
    9 years ago

    He should be arrested. It’s just as negligent as forgetting a child in the car.

    BoruchN
    BoruchN
    9 years ago

    ‘Fired!’ Cruel system…people. Anyone can make a mistake. Now, this employee might be a family person, with many good years of employment, and their family will suffer economically and emotionally. ‘FIRED!’ “Lock em up!” “Throw away the key!” They’re not people…we, the bosses NEVER make mistakes…cruel and foolish Americans. Aren’t Americans kind and understanding? I wish.

    birgas
    birgas
    9 years ago

    He should be arrested. It’s just as negligent as forgetting a child in the car.

    cbdds
    cbdds
    9 years ago

    It seems as though there was a failure in the systems. nobody would store a water/bleach solution in a water bottle unless higher ups started such a policy.