Nation IN BRIEF : NORTH CAROLINA : Abuse Trial Hears Ex-Day Care Worker
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A woman who worked at a Farmville, N.C., day care center involved in child abuse charges said that her daughter developed behavioral problems after attending the facility. The woman, Brenda Ambrose, was the first parent of a child allegedly abused at the Little Rascals Day Care Center to testify in the trial of the center’s owner. Robert F. Kelly Jr., 43, has pleaded innocent to 183 charges of sexually abusing 22 children. Ambrose said her 3-year-old daughter was in the same room with her for a month after she began working at Little Rascals. But Ambrose said that Kelly moved her to a room for infants and that the child then had nightmares, shunned her father and wet the bed.
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