Horrific Video Shows Toddler Being Tossed To The Floor At A Daycare And Suffering Brain Injury: Lawsuit

A California family is suing a premium hospitality and fittingness center aft information footage showed an worker propulsion their 23-month-old boy into nan air, dropping him onto a hardwood level and causing a traumatic encephalon injury.

The lawsuit accuses nan Bay Club Clubhouse successful El Segundo of intentionally falsifying incident reports and downplaying nan severity of nan toddler’s injuries to his parents. The installation claimed nan kid fell conscionable 18 inches from a squatting position, but later reviewed surveillance video showed nan worker launching nan boy astir six feet into nan air, according to a title seen by nan Los Angeles Times.

The incident occurred connected nan greeting of March 17, 2025, erstwhile Matthew Kittle near his son, identified successful tribunal documents arsenic C.K., astatine nan supervised childcare halfway for a scheduled three-hour stay.

Security camera footage obtained during nan ineligible proceedings shows nan toddler approaching a female worker pinch his hands up. The worker past appears to assistance nan boy by his hands, plaything him betwixt her legs doubly and hoist him supra her head. According to nan complaint, nan worker fto spell of nan child’s hands astatine nan highest of nan throw, grounded to drawback him and past fell backward connected apical of nan kid aft he struck nan floor.

Following nan fall, daycare unit reportedly placed 2 telephone calls to nan family.

During nan first call, labor told Kittle that his boy had fallen but calmed down, advising that an early pickup was unnecessary, nan suit says. A 2nd telephone was placed astatine 9:45 a.m. requesting that Kittle retrieve nan kid because unit could not settee him. The suit states nan nine gave nan begetter nan belief that nan kid had sustained a insignificant wounded and was simply causing accent for nan employees.

Upon arrival, Kittle reportedly discovered his boy had terrible bruising crossed nan correct broadside of his face, a swollen rima and a correct oculus that was swollen shut. After taking nan toddler home, nan parents observed he was irritable, lethargic and abnormally drowsy.

When nan parents pressed for details, a nine worker reportedly told Kittle that nan worker had tipped complete while squatting. Daycare unit besides said that nan boy wanted to slumber instantly aft nan incident and that they had struggled to support him awake.

The family took nan kid to an emergency room, wherever doctors told them that nan daycare’s type of events did not align pinch nan beingness trauma, according to NewsNation.

Doctors diagnosed nan boy pinch blunt caput trauma, a concussion and facial abrasions. The suit states nan kid continues to suffer from semipermanent symptoms, including proceeding loss.

The title alleges that nan Bay Club initially denied nan parents entree to nan daycare’s surveillance footage. Once nan family managed to get nan video, they realized nan installation had intentionally misled them.

“The daycare installation should person nan highest magnitude of attraction for nan children, and if a kid gets sick aliases injured, they should notify nan parents pinch transparency and urgency,” nan family's attorney, Ryan Saba of Rosen Saba, said successful a statement, according to ABC News. Saba called nan club's alleged attempts to hide nan specifications of nan incident “inexcusable.”

The Bay Club operates aggregate hospitality and fittingness locations crossed California, Oregon and Washington.

The Independent has contacted Bay Club Clubhouse and Rosen Saba for comment.