Transgender Daycare Worker Charged With Sexually Abusing a Baby
https://summit.news/2023/03/13/transgender-daycare-worker-charged-with-sexually-abusing-a-baby
13 March 2023
Suspect inappropriately touched infant while changing diaper.
A 25-year-old transgender-identified man has been charged with sexually abusing a baby while working at a daycare center in Kentucky.
“Maria Childers, 25, had been employed at the Explore Learning Academy in Paducah, Kentucky when the abuse is said to have occurred last November,” reports Reduxx. “Police became involved in February of this year after the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) received an anonymous tip from someone working inside the academy.”
Childers allegedly made inappropriate comments towards the infant while changing the child’s diaper and proceeded to touch the baby inappropriately.
“A Paducah police officer and DCBS staffer went to Explore Learning Academy on February 8 and spoke with a witness who corroborated the details of the anonymous report. Police also interviewed the director of the Academy, who appeared to have been aware of Childers’ behavior with the baby, but had only given him a “write up” for making inappropriate comments towards the infant,” reports the website, citing WPSD Local 6, a news network which refrained from referring to Childers as a man in its coverage of the story.
Childers initially denied changing the baby’s nappy under police questioning, but later had to acknowledge he had done so when presented with a text message he had sent to the daycare’s director confirming the baby’s diaper had been changed.
The suspect has been charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under the age of 12, and is currently housed in the McCracken County Jail, where his sex has been recorded as male.