Four Tennessee Daycare Workers Charged After Giving Children Melatonin to Put Them to Sleep

From left to right: Kristin Clark, Jordan Darnell, Jamie Clark and Ethan Pulley (Stewart County Sheriff’s Office)

Four daycare workers are under arrest accused of dosing children in their care to sleep.

Deputies with the sheriff’s office in Stewart County, Tennessee served a search warrant at Mimi’s Child Care on 373 Peachers Lane in Indian Mound.

Parents had complained that their children were lethargic and/or had health-related issues after staying at the licensed in-home daycare.

Investigators say some parents also told them that their kids would not go to sleep at night because they were apparently sleeping all day at the daycare.

The allegation is that staffers at the daycare were giving the children — infants to 6-year-olds — the sleep-aid Melatonin without the parents’ consent.

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SOURCE: News Channel 5, Nick Beres