Children were flicked in the head and choked for discipline at a day care center that was closed last year, and six infants kept in an unmonitored room in a cluttered basement are now on nebulizers to treat asthma, according to a state Department of Children and Families report.
Also, some children who were enrolled at Grace's Garden Academy now show signs of distress when they are placed in high chairs, pack-n-plays or shopping cart seats, says the report obtained Monday by The Post-Crescent.
The state agency twice told owner Katherine Rehfeldt over the past 25 months she could not operate a day care center without a license. Rehfeldt told them she was closing the day care, but continued to operate the center as a school, which
isn't required to be licensed under state law.
Grace's Garden Academy, 219 W. Weiland Ave., was closed May 3 by the Appleton Fire Department, which inspected the
facility on a tip forwarded by the department of Children and Families from a woman who complained that she had visited the center three times to check where her child would nap, only to be told each time she could not see the room because children were sleeping in it.
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