A West Garfield Park day care center and its owner are being sued over claims a young girl died while being hidden in a bedroom during a state agency's monitoring visit.
Tanesha Oatman, individually and as administrator of the Estate of her daughter, Tyla Carter, filed a lawsuit May 6 in the Cook County Circuit Court against Family & Friends Home Day Care and Sharon Trull-Yussuff, citing wrongful death.
Oatman claims her daughter, Tyla Carter, was one of the children Trull-Yussuff watched at her Wilcox Street day care facility. The suit alleges the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services conducted a monitoring visit on Aug. 6, when the defendant hid Tyla in a bedroom outside the day care because she had more children than the law permits.
Tyla, according to the complaint, die after having a difficult time breathing while napping in the bedroom.
Oatman is seeking damages in excess of $50,000 and is being represented in the case by Chicago attorney Brian C. Thomas of Thomas Law.
Cook County Circuit Court Case No. 2014L004936.
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