Whisper
July 29th, 2010, 03:54 PM
State investigating day care where girl choked to death on hot dog
INDIANAPOLIS (Daily Journal) - A state agency is investigating whether the Bargersville home where a child died should have had a license to operate as a day care facility.
Anna Hendley, 3, died after she choked on a hot dog at the home Monday. Police said homeowner Dawn Surface and her 17-year-old daughter were baby-sitting Hendley in the home with five other children.
Surface said she didn’t think she needed to have a day care license because there weren’t enough children in the home to meet the state’s requirements to be licensed.
Surface said she was watching children who were not related to her but are children of friends of hers. One child was 13, which she believed was old enough to not be counted as a child under state requirements, she said.
State law requires day care centers that operate in homes to be licensed if there are more than five children younger than 14 unrelated to the person in the home, said Marcus Barlow, spokesman for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration.
He said a state investigator will look into Surface’s home in the 5100 block of West County Road 150N and whether she should have a license to watch children there.
Surface said she couldn’t talk about what happened Monday when Hendley died. She already gave police her report, she said.
“I can’t really talk about it. It’s hard for me to go through it all,” Surface said.
She told police the children were eating hot dogs and began squabbling over who should get the last one. Hendley had a mouthful of food when she grabbed the last hot dog and shoved it in her mouth, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Doug Cox said.
The child began choking, and Surface went to help her, telling her teenage daughter to call 911 for help. On the 911 tape, Surface tells her daughter that the girl is in worse condition than they thought. The teenager gets upset as Surface continues to try to dislodge the hot dog but can’t, Cox said.
Surface and emergency workers all tried to get the hot dog out of the child’s airway but were not able to, he said. The child was taken to Johnson Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The sheriff’s office and the Indiana Department of Child Services have been investigating and believe the death to be an accident. The state department automatically investigates cases that involve a child’s death, police have said.
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Anna Hendley
INDIANAPOLIS (Daily Journal) - A state agency is investigating whether the Bargersville home where a child died should have had a license to operate as a day care facility.
Anna Hendley, 3, died after she choked on a hot dog at the home Monday. Police said homeowner Dawn Surface and her 17-year-old daughter were baby-sitting Hendley in the home with five other children.
Surface said she didn’t think she needed to have a day care license because there weren’t enough children in the home to meet the state’s requirements to be licensed.
Surface said she was watching children who were not related to her but are children of friends of hers. One child was 13, which she believed was old enough to not be counted as a child under state requirements, she said.
State law requires day care centers that operate in homes to be licensed if there are more than five children younger than 14 unrelated to the person in the home, said Marcus Barlow, spokesman for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration.
He said a state investigator will look into Surface’s home in the 5100 block of West County Road 150N and whether she should have a license to watch children there.
Surface said she couldn’t talk about what happened Monday when Hendley died. She already gave police her report, she said.
“I can’t really talk about it. It’s hard for me to go through it all,” Surface said.
She told police the children were eating hot dogs and began squabbling over who should get the last one. Hendley had a mouthful of food when she grabbed the last hot dog and shoved it in her mouth, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Doug Cox said.
The child began choking, and Surface went to help her, telling her teenage daughter to call 911 for help. On the 911 tape, Surface tells her daughter that the girl is in worse condition than they thought. The teenager gets upset as Surface continues to try to dislodge the hot dog but can’t, Cox said.
Surface and emergency workers all tried to get the hot dog out of the child’s airway but were not able to, he said. The child was taken to Johnson Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The sheriff’s office and the Indiana Department of Child Services have been investigating and believe the death to be an accident. The state department automatically investigates cases that involve a child’s death, police have said.
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http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/south_central/state-investigating-day-care-where-girl-choked-to-death-on-hot-dog
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Anna Hendley