Family wants answers after baby forgotten inside closed day care in Philadelphia

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Philadelphia police are investigating after a 6-month-old baby girl was left inside a day care facility alone after it closed on Thursday night.
It happened around 5:30 p.m. on the 4400 block of Whitaker Avenue in the city's Hunting Park section.
Police say when the family arrived, the day care was closed and locked up so they called 911.
"I was hoping that someone didn't take my daughter and I was hoping that she was okay," said Camron Banks, the girl's father in an exclusive interview with Action News.
https://6abc.com/philadelphia-day-care-whitaker-avenue-child-left-alone-philly-police/14379676/
turning now to a developing story in
Philadelphia's Hunting Park neighborhood
a six-month-old baby was left inside a
daycare alone after the facility closed
when family members went to pick up
their child the lights were out and it
was closed there the parents exclusively
speaking to Action News action news
reporter Katie catro live in Hunting
Park with that story tonight
Katie andari when we spoke with that
little girl's parents they say they
automatically thought the worst
thankfully they're little girl is okay
but they are absolutely horrified by the
whole situation I was hoping that
somebody didn't take my
daughter and I was hoping that she was
okay this is six-month-old Amora Banks
her parents are speaking out tonight
after their daughter was left alone
locked up inside her daycare it was
weird that they were close cuz they're
usually open open so the first thing
that came to mind
was they gave them to the wrong person
the mother Jesse Flores says she has
another child but has never never used
daycare before but she's been coming
here to The 4400 Block of Whitaker
Avenue for the past 3 months parents say
they usually pick up their daughter
around 3:00 p.m. today they came at 5:30
when they arrived the gate was down and
the lights were off the daycare is
supposed to close at 6:00 p.m. according
to police who rushed to help the parents
rescue their daughter inside the police
in the 25th district did a great job and
were able to track down not only the
owner but the manager who's a keyh
holder and they were able to get inside
the property but there was another
barrier when someone did show up and
unlock the front grate when the police
lifted the front grate it got stuck they
couldn't open it all the way they had to
call the fire department and the fire
department actually had to cut the front
grate and remove it finally in the
corner police found the six-month-old
baby girl sleeping in a car seat in the
dark at the end of the
day the 6mon baby should not be in there
and left them
all
now police did take the baby to St
Christopher's Hospital to be checked out
for dehydration the mother tells us she
was drinking a lot as for the
investigation police say they have
interviewed the owner of the daycare as
well as multiple people who work at the
daycare the parents do tell us that the
owner did apologize to them multiple
times reporting live in Hunting Park
Katie catro Channel 6 Action News back
to
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