Daycare worker outraged after discovering co-worker breastfeeding her son without permission

Andrea Blanford
11ABC
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 10:40 UTC

A mother is hoping police press charges against a daycare worker she says was caught on surveillance video breastfeeding her child without her permission.

Kaycee Oxendine recorded video from the security footage inside Carrboro Early School on Friday that shows a woman adjusting her top and bringing Oxendine's 3-month-old son to her chest to breastfeed him.

Oxendine works at the daycare as a pre-kindergarten teacher. On Friday, she said her son's teacher told her he was constipated. When another woman working in the nursery that day asked Oxendine if she could breastfeed the boy to see whether it would help, Oxendine told her no, twice.

"She said that she had a son and did I want her to put my child to her breast and breastfeed?" Oxendine recalled. "And I said no, that's nasty. We don't do things like that."

Oxendine said moments after she left the room, video shows the daycare worker picking up her baby and breastfeeding him for several seconds. The woman stopped when another worker who was in the room at the time, stood up to leave.

"As a mom, you've taken something from me, because I wasn't able to defend my child," Oxendine said. "I wasn't there."

The daycare director, Daron Council, told ABC11 that an employee reported what happened and that the worker who did the breastfeeding is no longer there. He said she usually worked at the Orange Chatham Early School, was licensed, and had been working in childcare for more than a decade.

Oxendine said the woman was fired on Friday, but she wants her to face criminal charges.

Later Friday evening, Oxendine rushed her baby to UNC Hospital because she said he became ill and was throwing up. Her son was born prematurely, is lactose intolerant and can't have any milk products.

"To me, a criminal act was committed against him," she said. "Not only did you put your breast to my son, you also made my son sick because he's lactose intolerant. So you've put something in his body that his body can't digest."

Records show the North Carolina Dept. Of Health and Human Services inspected both Carrboro and Orange Chatham Early Schools in October and November of last year. Both facilities received superior classifications.

Council said nothing like this had ever happened in one of the facilities. He said as soon as he found out what happened Friday, he reported it to DHHS and informed parents of the children who were under the woman's care that day.

"He's done everything in his power that he can do so I'm not angry at the director," Oxendine said. "I'm not angry at the childcare center. I'm very angry at the employee. I do hope that there's justice for my son."

Carrboro police said they were investigating the incident as misdemeanor child abuse. So far, no charges have been filed.

ABC11 tried to contact the daycare worker, but was unsuccessful Monday.

Reader Comments

Baybars ·

Why is this here?

· 2017-02-07T23:44:00Z

baron · 2017-02-08T00:15:36Z

Baybars I don't know but there once was a time when you could have shot someone for that and it would have been justified enough that no jury would have found you guilty of doing anything other than protecting a child from some freak show.

Baybars · 2017-02-08T06:09:43Z

baron It takes an entire village to raise a child

Joan · 2017-02-08T00:32:34Z

Maybe the reason it's has been posted is because, the feeding of a baby is one of the few instances of human behavior is left to us, to succor the young.

Breast milk transfers many beneficial substances to the baby, most importantly it helps in the formation of the babies immune system.

With artificial feeding, in the form of so called baby formulas, those beneficial effects are lost.

One of the results, autoimmune diseases,

The question really should be, why is such a basic human act considered to be an outrage and why it should need permission?

Not only that, in days gone by, women used a wet nurse, especially in the nobility, seems to me that the wet nurse had a more robust immune system and that is why they were used, to ensure a healthy line of succession.

What is wrong in sharing some beneficial microbes around, we do it for C Diff.

Does this mean that what is purchased in a supermarket, discount store or wherever and created in a lab somewhere is a better option than breast milk.

Just more dehumanization IMO

LindaMay · 2017-02-08T01:32:22Z

OMG

Mothers.... stay home with your offspring.

forestkitty · 2017-02-08T03:12:23Z

Joan, what if science finds that women carry breast cancer genes in their milk. what if a woman who gives breastmilk also takes drugs or medications. what if someone lickied her this morning from her crotch to her breasts and spread the hpv virus or herpes to her nipples. what if this woman was just getting the baby acquainted with her so that when she stole him he would not cry. WHAT IF, JOAN? and to tell why this article is posted is to show the difference in european women and american women. the latter does not seek wet nurses. in fact, in the 1950's and 1960's, women quit breastfeeding all together. they went to formulas not wet nurses.