Parents sue Fort Worth daycare after child found in street

Two Fort Worth parents are suing after they say their toddler was found on a busy street when she was supposed to be at daycare. Hello everybody, I'm Heather Hayes. And I'm Steve Yeager. It's nine o'clock. The incident happened actually in 2025. Fox Force Peyton Yeager has more from this lawsuit. Peyton. Steve and Heather, and this new lawsuit was just filed last week in Tarrant County. A family says their trust was violated when Beautiful Beginnings Daycare in Fort Worth put their daughter's life at risk. The child was found safe and unharmed, but But they want this daycare to be held responsible. What's going on? So I found a little girl in the middle of the road. I was driving to actually get some gas for my wife. Found her in the middle of the road. A two year old girl found near Basswood Boulevard and Parkwood Hill Boulevard in North Fort Worth alone by two strangers who called police. Where were they? Body camera footage reveals Fort Worth officers confronted employees at Beautiful Beginnings Daycare asking how the child wandered off unsupervised. And why they didn't call 911, but no one could provide a clear answer. Our playground is back here. Are you gonna go around? Yeah, they have to walk across the street to get inside the building. And I guess she got off the road and they didn't do name to face like we taught them to when they get into the room and by the time they came in and sat down. The incident took place August 28th, 2025, a hot summer day. More than a year later, the child's family filing a lawsuit against the daycare. North Texas attorney Russell Button is representing the family. We don't know if this child was lost from the playground, if the child was lost before they all got to the playground, if the child was lost on the way back from the playground. The lawsuit claims the daycare didn't do a proper headcount when going to and from the playground. So you put it on your wrist like this. And also claims the Velcro rope strap system employees use to link up the kids while walking in and out of the building is unsafe and unreliable. And then some of them know how to take it off, so they, yeah. So that's why I'm seeing some of them, yeah. Do a lot of them take it off? Yeah. Or is it, okay. It'll be like two, three of them at a time, and we have to keep on putting it on, so. Okay. Yeah. The same employee telling police she was overwhelmed. But I couldn't look, cuz I'm with kids, right? Okay, so you didn't do what you were supposed to do. The owner of the daycare told police they don't have outside cameras. According to Fort Worth PD's initial report, quote, all three parties at the daycare facility knew nothing about the child's whereabouts, how long the child was gone from their care, nor anyone wanted to take accountability for the incident. The two teachers showed no remorse in regard to the incident, nor did either one of them ask about the child and how she was once she was found. She was on the verge of heat exhaustion. She was hot. She was sweaty. She had white stuff around her. She had clearly looked like she had been out lost, which is exactly what happened. And just a note, we blurred the faces of the employees because no charges have been filed at this time. Now, Beautiful Beginnings is still operating. According to online records, the state did conduct its own investigation. The daycare was cited for this incident, saying a child was left unsupervised 14 to 29 minutes and that a new face-to-name protocol was implemented. But we don't know if the two employees involved were fired. We reached out to the daycare this afternoon to see, ask them any questions or if they had any comment on this And we haven't heard back.