Day Care Owner Charged w/ Pimping Children
Maggie
Woman Accused of Molesting Toddlers
By REX W. HUPPKE
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A woman who operates a day care center out of her home was
accused of molesting little children in her care and offering them to her
boyfriend sexually for $200.
``For people who entrust their children to a licensed day care, it's every
parents' worst nightmare,'' Marion County prosecutor Scott Newman said
Wednesday.
LaDonna Tucker, 40, was arrested after the boyfriend tipped police and let
officers tape his phone conversations with her, Newman said.
In those calls, according to court papers, Tucker talked about performing oral
sex on both male and female children. She also suggested that boyfriend Melvin
Ridings, 41, could perform sex acts on any child he desired if he were to
``arrive bearing gifts,'' Newman said.
Eleven children - all age 2 or younger - who spent time at Tucker's Puggie
Wuggie's day care were being examined for signs of sexual abuse. Tucker
received her state day care license in November.
Tucker declined interviews from jail, and messages left at her home were not
returned.
On Tuesday, wearing a wire and a small video camera, Ridings went to Tucker's
home, a ranch-style brick house in a middle-class neighborhood. She allegedly
accepted $200 and recommended two particular children of the eight she was
watching that day. Police then intervened and arrested Tucker.
Tucker faced preliminary charges of conspiracy to commit child molestation and
promoting prostitution.
A state worker who had visited the day care center on Friday reported that the
home was clean and neat, said Andrew Stoner, spokesman for the state Family and
Social Services Administration.
Indiana has about 3,000 licensed home day cares and about 700 licensed
child-care centers.
On the Net:
Indiana Family and Social Services Administration: http://www.state.in.us/fssa
Maggie
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maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC (Maggie) wrote:
> It sounds like an urban legend, but apparently it's true. From the
AP:
>
> Woman Accused of Molesting Toddlers
>
> By REX W. HUPPKE
>
> INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A woman who operates a day care center out of her
home was
> accused of molesting little children in her care and offering them to
her
> boyfriend sexually for $200.
What a horrific story, Maggie! I appreciate you sharing it, though. If
these charges are proven true, this woman deserves any punishment they
throw at her (and probably more).
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Maggie
> maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC (Maggie) wrote:
>> It sounds like an urban legend, but apparently it's true. From the
>AP:
>>
>> Woman Accused of Molesting Toddlers
>>
>> By REX W. HUPPKE
>>
>> INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A woman who operates a day care center out of her
>home was
>> accused of molesting little children in her care and offering them to
>her
>> boyfriend sexually for $200.
>
>What a horrific story, Maggie! I appreciate you sharing it, though. If
>these charges are proven true, this woman deserves any punishment they
>throw at her (and probably more).
***I bet this isn't the first time that children in her care have been
subjected to abuse of some kind. It wouldn't surprise me if this woman never
gets out of jail. Here's the rather spare local story from the Indianapolis
Star:
Day-care operator charged with sexual abuse
By Vic Ryckaert and John Masson
January 17, 2001
A Northwestside woman is accused of sexually abusing children in her day-care
operation and offering them for prostitution, prosecutors said today.
“I am not easily shocked after six years in this job,” Marion County
Prosecutor Scott Newman said. “It is just so depraved."
Ladonna Tucker, 40, 6000 block of Melbourne Road, was arrested after sheriff's
deputies raided her home Tuesday night. She faces preliminary charges of
conspiracy to commit child molestation and prostitution of children.
As many as 11 children were in the care of Puggie Wuggie’s, Tucker’s home
day care, according to Newman.
He said all but two of the children, some as young as four months old, may have
suffered sexual abuse at her hands in the four months since she opened the
business.
Even more shocking to the veteran prosecutor, he said, was Tucker’s offer to
have the children perform sex acts on a man she had just begun dating. The sex
acts would have cost him $200, Newman said – enough to help defray the costs
of a trip to Chicago that Tucker was craving.
The investigation continues, Newman said, but a conviction could result in a 20
to 50 year prison term.
"It’s every parent’s worst nightmare," Newaman said. "One can hardly wonder
what’s going through these parents’ minds.
According to court records, Tucker lives with her four children and says she is
unemployed.
She has not yet posted a $7,500 bond and remains in the Marion County Jail. She
has requested a public defender.