Police find 26 children behind false wall at Colorado Springs daycare
11/15/2019 1:58 pm PST
via KDVR:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) -- The state has suspended the license for Play Mountain Place daycare in Colorado Springs after 26 children were found behind a false wall in the owner's basement. All of the children are under the age of 3.
The owner, 58-year-old Carla Faith, is being investigated. A total of three adult workers were arrested, but those charges were cancelled pending an ongoing investigation.
On Wednesday, the department asked the Colorado Springs police to assist with a welfare check at the daycare after they received a complaint about the number of children the daycare was housing. When officers arrived, they didn't find any children.
When they contacted the owner at her residence on the same property, she refused to cooperate. But officers could hear the children inside her home. They eventually found a false wall that led to the basement where they located the children.
Police have not identified the children or said if they were at all related to Faith.
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