LINN — She's only identified as "Parent C" in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's investigation into the Busy Bee Learning Academy, over allegations the daycare was giving medicated gummies to children. But she's the one who blew the whistle on the daycare and now she spoke with KRCG 13 exclusively for the first time.
"As a parent, not even as an employee, the rage I felt," she said, asking to remain anonymous. "And I think that's why I've come to the media now because I feel the courts are not going to bring justice to this."
For more than a month, residents of Linn have told KRCG 13 about the divided town, following these allegations, as some in the community defend the Busy Bee Learning Academy and its owner, Tonya Newbound, while others have denounced the daycare.
But now, for the first time since these allegations arose, the woman who blew the whistle on the Busy Bee case is speaking out.
"I will admit I had given [gummies] to the children one time a few months before this all went down," she said. "And I was like 'this feels wrong,' and I told Tonya I'm not doing it again."
"I didn't think much of it because she'd [Newbound] done it so many times," she continued. "But then I was like, 'what if she's having me do it so I'm partially guilty,' and then I started thinking 'why are we giving these?'"
Months later, she said a coworker told her that her own son, a Busy Bee child, was being given gummies.
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