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Posted Oct 28, 2004 2:08 PM
Day-care owner indicted for duct-taping toddler
Associated Press
ALICE - A South Texas day care owner has been indicted on felony charges of injury to a child and unlawful restraint after a 3-year-old boy was bound with duct tape at the day care.
Arleen Aguilar Trigo, 40, of Alice, was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Jim Wells County, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported.
Aguilar, who owns ABC Kiddie College Daycare, was arrested Oct. 13 after the child's grandmother checked on him and discovered he was tied at the ankles and wrists with duct tape.
Sarah Bazan told police an employee was lying on top of her grandson and holding him down with her arm and leg.
Aguilar surrendered her day care license shortly after that. She gave a voluntary statement to authorities that she restrained the boy to keep him from hitting an aquarium at the center, District Attorney Joe Frank Garza said.
Injury to a child is a third degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison. Unlawful restraint is a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in jail.
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