Overview
- The lawsuit names Kidus Daycare, parent company JPR International Inc., and former employee Veronica Jimenez, following a January classroom incident captured on surveillance video.
- Attorneys for parents Ali and Hoda Ibrahim filed the case in Bexar County’s 288th Civil District Court, alleging gross negligence and negligent hiring, training, supervision, and retention.
- Video reviewed by investigators shows Jimenez grabbing the toddler, who then struck his head on classroom furniture, after which the daycare fired her and contacted authorities.
- Jimenez, 50, was arrested Jan. 6 on a state-jail felony charge of injury to a child, bonded out the next day, and has a criminal court date set for April 7, with no indictment reported yet.
- The suit describes a bleeding head wound, asserts ongoing physical and emotional harm to the child, and notes Jimenez was the only employee in the classroom at the time.