Baby locked inside dark daycare: Discovered crying on the floor

'I saw her crawling towards us screaming and my heart just dropped'

One-year-old Journee Jones was discovered alone in the dark, screaming and crying on the floor of her day care after the staff closed up for the day.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - On Monday night, Cornelius Jones arrived at his daughter's daycare, All Things Are Possible for Kids, fifteen minutes before they closed. He was startled to find the lights off and the doors locked so he immediately called 911.

Fire fighters responded to the call and had to force the daycare door open. Journee's fearful cries could be heard clearly, but it was so dark authorities were unable to locate her immediately.

Jones told Fox 32, "I was wondering where she is, where is she. I hear her, but I couldn't see her. And one of the police officers flashed a light to the left and flashed it back to the right and that's when I saw her crawling towards us screaming and my heart just dropped."

Journee's rescue was captured on a cell phone and an officer could be heard calling out to her. Once Journee was safely returned to her father's arms, Jones had a chance to calm down and reflect on the situation. He said, "If anything [the day care] should be shut down, I mean nobody leaves kids behind, toddlers. I don't care how old they are that's dangerous."

Quanesha Borum, Journee's mother, received an apology from the daycare's Director, whom Borum said told her, "She told me that they thought Journee was a doll, but she's not that little to be a doll, so it's some excuses."

The Department of Children and Family Services launched an investigation into the situation and has reported that the daycare has no history of formal complaints. 

Following the frightening ordeal, Jones said staff told him "they were still in the back of the day care at the time he arrived."

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