Sometimes a kid’s just gotta find some space or at least a little candy. Something like that was apparently going through the minds of two girls at a Coon Rapids day care on Monday, because the two staged a break-out.
They did it by crossing one of the busiest streets in Coon Rapids. And when Sabrina Richards got a call from her daughter’s day care, located on Hanson Boulevard Monday, she was stunned at what she heard.
“They said, ‘You’ll never believe!’” Richards said. “I’m like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’”
New Horizons Academy said her four year old daughter, Gabrielle, had snuck out.
“It’s like walking across Highway 10, it might as well have been,” Tristan Johann, Gabrielle’s father said.
Gabrielle crossed the four lane road with another preschooler to get candy at a Cub Foods.
“It just seemed surreal!” Richards said.
During Monday’s naptime, the girls slipped past the staff and out a side door, which Richards said had a faulty alarm. Their first stop: a gas station next door, where they told concerned clerks their grandmother was waiting for them outside.
“They were making up their own stories, I guess,” Richards said.
Crossing the always busy Hanson Blvd, they went to Cub Foods, and were looking at chewing gum when police arrived, called both by the grocery store and by the day care. Safely returned home, Gabrielle had just one answer to why she left: “My friend told me to do it,” Richards recalled.
The girls are now separated at day care, and Gabrielle’s parents say they don’t expect more problems.
“That was her first spanking,” Johann said. “So I think she understands now.”
New Horizons also says it won’t happen again. It’s checked safety measures, fired a staff member, and reassured parents.
“I was just really happy with how on top of it they were,” Richards said.
“It could happen to anybody,” Johann said. “Kids are sneaky when they want to be.”
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