A second arrest has been made as part of an ongoing child abuse investigation at a local day care.
A former employee of the Berlin Activities Depot, Catherine Deutsch, 32, of Ocean Pines, was arrested Tuesday on 15 charges – 11 charges of failure to report child abuse/neglect and four charges of neglect of a minor.
Deutsch reportedly worked in the same infant classroom as Heather Ward, 40, of Berlin, who was indicted in late March by a county grand jury on 90 charges, including 10 felony child abuse charges related to nine children under her supervision.
The charges were filed earlier this year after the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and Child Protective Services were informed last November an eight-month-old had been admitted to Atlantic General Hospital with a broken tibia.
“During the investigation, it was determined that the injured child was an attendee of the Berlin Education Station Childcare Center,” a release from the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Investigation read in March. “Video surveillance footage from the child’s classroom revealed actions by an employee identified as Heather Ward that appeared to cause the injuries to the child. The video footage additionally revealed other concerning interactions with several other children under her care.”
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