A Florida mother is filing a lawsuit against a daycare company after employees left her 2-year-old daughter alone inside one of their facilities before she was able to arrive for pick-up.
Stephanie Martinez told ABC station WPLG that she arrived at Plantation KinderCare daycare center on Tuesday night and found her daughter, Anastasia Brathwaite, locked inside with the lights off. The employees had left for the day, Martinez said, and she had no way to get Anastasia out.
"I started knocking. I banged on every window. I couldn't see anything because everything was dark," Martinez recalled to the outlet. "And finally, I heard her and she popped on the little window, on the little door, and I lost it."
Plantation firefighters arrived soon after and were able to pry open the doors of the facility to free Anastasia. According to a report by the Plantation Police Department cited by WPLG, two of Plantation KinderCare's employees left the daycare center at 6:20 p.m., about eight minutes before Martinez arrived.
"She's super traumatized," Martinez told NBC station WTVJ about the incident. "It's not fair."
The Plantation Police Department and a lawyer representing Martinez did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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