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Dropping off your kids at a daycare facility can be a lot for some parents, especially when their children are so young and they’re just getting used to the idea of them being put in someone else’s care. For most, things usually tend to go smoothly. But what about those singular experiences when the people in charge of keeping your little one safe put them directly in harm’s way?
Parents of a toddler in California have filed a lawsuit against a daycare center after their child suffered traumatic brain injury and hearing loss from one of their employees tossing their toddler up in the air and dropping him on the ground.
This video footage from the incident at the daycare is hard to watch.
According to the New York Post, parents of a 23-month-old named “C.K.” have filed a lawsuit against a daycare facility in El Segundo, California, after their toddler was thrown in the air by a daycare worker and dropped.
Stills and video footage of the incident from March 2025 at The Bay Club Clubhouse has been released. It features the employee “playfully” lifting the child up into her arms and throwing him in the air only to be unable to catch him and they both fall to the floor, per the Post. It appears that the daycare worker practically landed right on top of the little boy.
The parents allege that their toddler suffered serious injuries which were a direct result of the fall.
The toddler’s parents say that the fall caused a traumatic brain injury including hearing loss.
According to the lawsuit, C.K. allegedly hit his head during the fall and “began hysterically crying” as other employees and adults in the room watched “in shock,” the Post reported.
C.K.’s parents, named as Matt and Elena Kittle, filed papers stating that their child suffered from a traumatic brain injury and hearing loss due to the fall.
When his parents picked him up that day, they found that the right side of C.K.’s face was “badly bruised,” his right eye was swollen shut, and his mouth was swollen, per the Post. The lawsuit also states that when they got C.K. home, he was “extremely drowsy, lethargic, and irritable.”
Later that day, C.K. was admitted into a local hospital for evaluation of blunt head trauma and was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.
The facility’s response raised questions.
According to the New York Post, Matt Kittle dropped C.K. off at 8:35 a.m. on the day of the incident at the nearby Bay Club Clubhouse while he went to the Manhattan Country Club. The country club membership allows for members to have their kids watched at their child care facilities without any additional fees.
The lawsuit states that Kittle received a phone call from the facility just to let him know that C.K. had fallen, but “had since calmed down,” per the Post. Fifteen minutes later, the daycare facility called C.K.’s dad back to tell him that he did need to be picked up as they told him he had sustained a “minor injury.”
There was also some dispute about how many feet C.K. fell to the ground. The lawsuit documents say that the employee told Kittle that his son had only fallen one and a half feet while the video of the incident showed that he had been at least 6 feet in the air.
Even though the incident happened in 2025, the lawsuit states that C.K. is still “experiencing symptoms” from the traumatic brain injury, the Post reported. The Kittles are asking for an amount to be determined by an injury with their lawsuit and are accusing the Bay Club of negligence, battery, fraud, and emotional distress.
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