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Second Personal Injury Lawsuit Filed After Texas Daycare Fire
Posted on Apr 25, 2011
About a week after one mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit and personal injury lawsuit against a Texas daycare provider, another family has filed a personal injury lawsuit regarding the same incident.
In February, a 22-year-old in-home daycare provider left a number of children alone in her home while she went shopping at Target. By the time she returned, four children had been killed in a fire while others were seriously injured. An initial investigation has revealed that the fire began at a kitchen stove. The woman who ran the daycare had been licensed for under a year at the time of the fire.
Now, Houston mother April Jackson is suing the woman, Jessica Tata, as well as the owner of the home, Ronal Velasco. In addition, she is suing Tata’s parents and brother, who Jackson said knew that they were helping Tata start a daycare that she couldn’t run responsibly. Jackson’s two-year-old son was seriously burned in the fire. The personal injury lawsuit does not specify damages.
Last week, mother Tiffany Dickenson filed two lawsuits against Jessica Tata regarding the same deadly fire. The woman’s 3-year-old son Shomari, while Shomari’s 2-year-old sister Makayla was one of three children seriously injured in the fire. Dickenson’s lawsuit accuses Tata, Tata’s parents, and the State of Texas of negligence.
Tata, who briefly fled the country after the deadly daycare neglect incident occurred, has been charged with murder, reckless injury to a child, child abandonment and leaving the country to avoid prosecution. Her first court date is in mid-May.
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