(Michigan City, IN) - A worker at a Michigan City daycare facility could face prison time for the injuries and rough treatment inflicted on two babies.

 

Aniya Dabney, 21, is charged in La Porte Superior Court 1 with six Level 5 felony counts of battery and Level 6 felony obstruction of justice.

 

According to court documents, the allegations involving both infants occurred on May 1 at Tt’s Daycare in the 200 block of N. Carroll Ave.

 

Police became involved when a man after picking up his 12 month old son from the center discovered significant bruising and marks on his buttocks, both legs and an arm.

 

According to court documents, surveillance video police obtained from the daycare facility shows Dabney grabbing a back scratcher off the wall and going into a room where the boy was located.

 

The video also contains the sound of something soon being struck multiple

times and the boy screaming, police said.

 

Police said there’s also video showing Dabney holding the back scratcher after leaving the room and threatening to hit the boy heard crying in the background some more.

 

That same day, police said Dabney was captured on video doing things at the daycare center like dragging a five month girl across the floor by the leg and picking her up off the floor by the collar of her onesie.

 

Police said the video images also include Dabney dropping the girl several times onto a large cushion on the floor hard enough sometimes to cause her head to bounce.

 

Dabney of LaPorte taken into custody Monday was being held in the La Porte County Jail on $15,000 bond.