The private daycare center under investigation for mistreatment in São José do Rio Preto, inside São Paulo, does not have authorization to carry out its function, according to the city of São José do Rio Preto. The municipality’s Finance Department specified that the company had requested authorization on November 17, 2025, but that the request had been rejected by the inspection, taking into account the observation that it was carrying out daycare activities.
On November 18, the daycare was notified to include the early childhood education (daycare) activity. The deadline will end on December 22. If the adjustments are not respected, after the expiration of the deadline and a new inspection, the daycare may be warned, fined and closed.
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THE Metropolises He contacted the Rio Preto Municipal Department of Education, which clarified that the mentioned location is not registered as a preschool education school and, therefore, is not under the supervision of the department. According to the secretary, daycare is a leisure and leisure business.
Investigation
The mothers of the victims went to the São José police station on Saturday (13/12) to file a complaint. According to the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP), “the children were stuck on a balcony in intense heat, with exposed food and in unsanitary conditions.”
According to the investigation, the children were also the targets of verbal insults and returned home with bruises, bites and other marks on their bodies, without plausible explanations from those in charge of the daycare.
The SSP indicated that the case is being investigated for mistreatment by the 6th Police District of São José do Rio Preto and that efforts are still underway to clarify the facts and hold those involved accountable.
“Raw butt” and black eye
The grandmother of one of the children enrolled at the daycare revealed that her grandson, aged just 2, came home with bites, raw buttocks and even a black eye. At Metropolisesoccupational therapist Jany Lima Santos, 48, explained that her grandson has been enrolled in daycare for about 1 year and two months. When he arrived home with a black eye, the owner of the establishment said it might have been an accident and his grandmother requested the local security cameras.
“When I asked for the images, the owner told me: ‘we have to trust each other. If it’s not for trust, it’s useless,'” the therapist explained.
When Jany insisted, the owner told her that “the place where he fell doesn’t have a camera”, which outraged her, due to the price she pays monthly at the daycare.
She began to become suspicious when, after the incident, the boy began to hesitate about going to daycare. “When we told him to go, he was shaking a lot and crying, saying, ‘No daycare.’ He held on to my daughter’s neck and asked her not to leave him there,” he said.
The family then decides to unregister the baby from the establishment. “We didn’t report it and now seeing the reports we think it wasn’t a fall, but rather an assault. Someone must have hit him or elbowed him,” the grandmother speculates.
According to Jany, the abuse began to occur after the daycare changed ownership. The establishment was sold in July of this year, but, according to the former owners, it still bears the old name on the facade.
What does the nursery say?
In a note published on social networks, the management of the establishment declared that “the images and videos shared were recorded and disseminated out of context, in a partial and distorted manner, by former employees who had already requested to leave the institution” and that “the elements disclosed do not reflect the routine, nor the values, nor the standard of care adopted by the school throughout its history”.
In the text, the daycare specifies that some of the specific situations captured in the videos have already been corrected and were the result of a specific functional failure “and not of any repeated practice of neglect, abuse or mistreatment”.
The management of the establishment also guarantees that the conduct of employees has always been supported by the terms of the Child and Adolescent Status (EJA). The owners of the daycare are taking appropriate legal measures, both criminal and civil, to investigate the facts.
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