Parent Fears Guilty Conscience as Arvada Daycare Operator Heads to Court
State officials suspended the license after finding four infants cared for on a two-child permit, while the family of the injured child reports a traumatic brain injury.
By Pedro Barnes ·
An Arvada home daycare operator will appear in court on October 29 on a prior child abuse charge as Westminster police maintain a criminal investigation into an infant left in critical condition last month.
The Colorado Department of Early Childhood issued a license suspension order that details the current probe and prior history of the facility. The order states the owner cared for four infants despite holding a license for only two children. The injured child and one of the children enrolled by parent Hannah Fuller were among those four.
Fuller said an assistant, who is the operator’s daughter, called her in a frantic state last month. The assistant reported that an infant had choked and required CPR. Fuller arrived at the facility and received limited details, with staff offering repeated assurances that the situation was under control.
“My gut was like I think something worse is going on, but you don’t want to think it, because then you feel guilty that you put your kids in that situation that could have been them,” Fuller said.
The suspension order notes the child was transported to a hospital in critical and near-fatal condition. Westminster police have classified the matter as a criminal investigation but have not made an arrest. The order also references a previous misdemeanor child abuse charge connected to an incident in February 2026.
The family of the injured boy has requested anonymity but shared a medical update through Fuller. The child suffers from a traumatic brain injury and retinal hemorrhaging. “They’re just taking little improvements as wins, and just hoping for the best,” Fuller said. “But they don’t quite know what it will look like. They do know he will never be the same.”
Investigators have asked parents to bring their children for physical exams to check for internal damage. Police have not disclosed their theory of events to the families. A police spokesperson stated in a statement that the department understands the concern for families but that investigations involving children require careful review to protect integrity and privacy. The owner’s attorney declined to comment.
