A pair of employees at a California day care were arrested after police say an 8-month-old baby boy in their care sustained a fractured skull. Rudie Megan Maldonado and Felicia Ann Ferra were both taken into custody and charged with one count each of child abuse likely to produce great bodily injury or death and conspiracy to conceal the injury from the child’s mother, the sheriff’s office said.
On Sept. 4, 2021, deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said they responded to a call from Loma Linda University Medical Center concerning a baby with suspicious and life-threatening injuries. The infant was immediately brought to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and medical personnel believed those injuries to be consistent with physical abuse.
Upon arriving at the hospital, medical personnel told investigators that an 8-month-old infant who had been attending day care at the Kiddie Academy located in the 7200 block of Victoria Park Lane in Rancho Cucamonga had suffered a fractured skull.
Following the multi-month investigation by the department’s Specialized Investigations Division, Crimes Against Children Detail, sheriff’s deputies arrested Maldonado last Wednesday. Ferra turned herself in to authorities the next day.
According to a report from Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCAL-TV, a person “close to the situation” informed the station that the child is still recovering from his injury after several months.
The 27-year-old Maldonado was booked at the...
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