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Months of Mistreatment Caught on Camera at Camden Hill Daycare
Months of Mistreatment Caught on Camera at Camden Hill DaycareCarrollton, TX – At The Button Law Firm, we represent families when daycares betray the most basic trust parents place in them: the promise to keep their children safe. Five Texas families have now come forward after learning that their one-year-old children were subjected to 140+ incidents of aggressive handling and inappropriate discipline over five days inside their classroom at Camden Hill.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Hernandez family, the Brian family, the Showalter family, the Baker-Tabor family, and the Kirk family. The suit details a disturbing pattern of mistreatment inflicted on toddlers too young to speak up or protect themselves while under Camden Hill’s care.
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Parents Trusted Camden Hill’s Promises of Safety and Care
According to the lawsuit, Camden Hill marketed itself as a Montessori school built on integrity, kindness, and excellence. Parents were promised nurturing, patient, and highly qualified caregivers who would guide children with encouragement and care, even when no one is watching.
Based on these representations, parents reasonably believed their one-year-olds would be safe and protected. What they did not know was that those promises were being broken behind classroom doors.
A Serious Injury Reveals a Much Larger Problem
On June 9, 2025, Alezandra Hernandez received a call from Camden Hill stating that her 16-month-old son had been injured and was refusing to put weight on his leg. The daycare conveyed no urgency and claimed he had fallen during play.
When Alezandra arrived, she found her son in visible pain and unable to walk. Camden Hill provided an incident report repeating the same explanation.
At the emergency room, the child was diagnosed with a severe contusion to his leg. Concerned by the seriousness of the injury, his parents demanded to see the surveillance footage. What they saw told a very different story.
Surveillance Footage Exposes the Truth
Video footage revealed that Camden Hill’s account was false.
The footage shows a caregiver grabbing the young boy by one arm, lifting his full body weight by that arm, carrying him across the room, and then dropping him from chest height onto a hard floor. The caregiver then repeated similar conduct with another child, ignoring the child as he cried in pain.
This single video was only the beginning.
More Than 140 Instances of Prohibited Conduct in Five Days
A broader review of classroom footage uncovered more than 140 separate instances of aggressive handling and inappropriate discipline in just five days. Two Camden Hill caregivers, Melissa Rodriguez and Perla Rodriguez, were responsible.
The conduct captured on camera included yanking toddlers by their arms, slamming them against hard surfaces, throwing shoes, pulling hair, pinching, spanking, yelling, covering children’s mouths as they cried, and falsifying incident reports to conceal injuries. The victims included multiple toddlers in the classroom.
In numerous instances, caregivers failed to intervene. In one particularly disturbing moment, footage shows a caregiver asking for a shoe so she could throw it at a child, while another caregiver handed it to her.
State Investigations Confirm Widespread Violations
Investigations by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Child-Care Licensing Division and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services substantiated numerous violations of Texas child care safety laws. These included the use of prohibited punishment, failure to intervene, and failure to report suspected abuse or neglect.
“This was not a misunderstanding or a single bad decision,” said Russell Button, founding attorney of The Button Law Firm. “This was a pattern of prohibited conduct that went on for months while Camden Hill failed to supervise, failed to intervene, and failed to protect one-year-old children.”
Cameras Without Oversight, Promises Without Protection
Camden Hill had surveillance cameras throughout its classrooms. Yet over a five-day period alone, more than 140 instances of inappropriate conduct went unnoticed or unaddressed. One caregiver later admitted she had been treating toddlers poorly since she began working there.
“The cameras created a false sense of security,” Button said. “They did nothing to protect these children.”
The Button Law Firm’s Fight for Accountability
The lawsuit seeks accountability for the physical, emotional, psychological, and developmental harm suffered by the children and their families. The harm was entirely preventable.
“These families trusted Camden Hill with their children,” Button said. “That trust was broken. We will fight to ensure this conduct is exposed and that meaningful change follows.”
If Your Child Was Harmed at Daycare, Contact Us
If you believe your child was mistreated or injured at a daycare, The Button Law Firm is here to help. We have extensive experience helping kids get life-changing results and justice against bad daycares, schools, and companies that abuse and neglect the safety of children.
Call 214-699-4409, email intake@buttonlawfirm.com, or fill out our contact form for a free and confidential case evaluation.
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