LOUISIANA
Shreveport Times
Written by
Vickie Welborn
The parents of one of five children physically abused by former employees of Bellaire Learning Center today filed suit in Bossier District Court seeking unspecified damages from one of the workers and the church-owned day care facility.
Jessica and Stephen Ponder named Tammi Lynn Hilliard and Bellaire Baptist Church of Bossier City, doing business as Bellaire Learning Center, as defendants. Attorney Craig Smith represents the Ponder family.
Additional lawsuits are anticipated from two other families.
The Ponders accuse Hilliard of throwing “hard and heavy toys” at their son’s face two separate times in June. The first throw missed but then Hilliard launched another toy, striking the boy, Jace, in the face near an eye.
The act “disparaged and denigrated him in front of his friends and classmates” and Hilliard used a “prohibited method of discipline upon him,” the lawsuit alleges.
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