CBS News Texas recently covered The Button Law Firm’s lawsuit against BeYOUtiful Beginnings after the Fort Worth daycare lost a 2-year-old girl who made it into the middle of a busy road and no one responsible for her care realized she was gone.
The report shows the daycare’s supervision failures, the state investigation that followed, and the Jones family’s continued fight for answers and accountability more than a year after their daughter was found by strangers.
What happened was not an unpredictable accident. BeYOUtiful Beginnings knew its safety procedures had weaknesses, failed to complete basic checks meant to keep every child accounted for, and a 2-year-old paid the price. This was preventable.
The Fort Worth Daycare Lost a 2-Year-Old
Russell Button told CBS News Texas that this case came down to one of the most basic responsibilities a daycare has: knowing which children are in its care.
“The teacher didn't know how many kids that she was responsible for, and in fact, proof positive. She lost a little 2-year-old,” Button told CBS News Texas.
The little girl left the daycare unnoticed and reached Parkwood Hill Boulevard, where strangers found her alone in the middle of a high-traffic road. Her family still does not know exactly how long she had been lost.
Russell told CBS News Texas that she had been gone long enough to be found hot and sweaty, with signs of heat exhaustion.
The Daycare Knew Its Safety System Could Fail
CBS News Texas also highlighted problems with the daycare’s transition procedures.
Employees told police that children could easily remove themselves from the Velcro walking rope used to move them between the daycare and playground. An employee also acknowledged that the required name-to-face check was not completed.
The daycare already knew the walking rope was not foolproof. That made close supervision, headcounts, and name-to-face checks even more crucial.
Instead, the daycare lost a 2-year-old and did not realize she was gone until after strangers found her in the road.
As Russell told CBS News Texas, “This was not a matter of if it was ever going to happen. It was just when. And unfortunately, it was our family that paid the price.”
Texas State Investigators Cited BeYOUtiful Beginnings with Five Failures
Texas childcare facilities must follow Minimum Standards requiring caregivers to know which children they are responsible for, how many children are in their care, and where those children are during transitions.
After this incident, Texas childcare investigators issued five citations against BeYOUtiful Beginnings. The violations included failing to protect a child from neglect, failing to provide proper supervision, and caregivers failing to know which children and how many children they were responsible for.
These are basic safeguards designed to prevent a daycare from losing a child.
When those responsibilities break down, the consequences can become life-threatening within minutes.
The Jones Family Is Still Living with the Impact
More than a year after BeYOUtiful Beginnings lost their daughter, Felisha and Travae Jones are still seeking justice and accountability for what their 2-year-old experienced and for the failures that put her life at risk.
“We want BeYOUtiful Beginnings to tell us what happened to our daughter, how it was allowed to happen, and to take responsibility for putting her life at risk,” the family told CBS News Texas. “No family should ever have to experience the nightmare that our family has lived through.”
That nightmare did not end when their daughter was carried out of the road.
In the months that followed, her parents watched a once-calm toddler become afraid of being separated from the people she trusted. She followed her mother from room to room, struggled with daycare drop-offs, and began experiencing intense emotional outbursts.
Russell told CBS News Texas, “Thankfully, she wasn't killed…but it doesn't make it any less significant here.”
Why This Coverage Matters
Coverage like CBS News Texas helps bring serious daycare safety failures into public view and gives families a chance to explain the full impact of what happened to their child.
In this case, the reporting brought attention to a daycare that lost a 2-year-old, the failures that allowed it to happen, the state violations that followed, and the lasting impact on a family that is still trying to help their daughter feel safe again.
For the Jones family, that attention gives them another platform to demand accountability from BeYOUtiful Beginnings and to raise awareness among other parents about what can happen when basic daycare safeguards fail.
At The Button Law Firm, we represent kids in daycare and child injury cases to help them get life-changing results and justice against bad daycares, schools, and companies that abuse and neglect the safety of children.
If your child was lost, left unsupervised, or seriously injured at a Texas daycare, call 214-699-4409, email intake@buttonlawfirm.com, or use our contact form to share what happened.
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