Attorney: Day care worker who urged kids to curse has died
ALLENTOWN (AP) – A former Pennsylvania day care worker charged with coaxing 3- and 4-year-old children to use obscenities on camera has died while awaiting trial.
Sean Poll, the attorney for 25-year-old Rashanna Gyles, tells The (Easton) Express-Times that Gyles died April 28 from unspecified health problems and was buried May 3.
She’d been awaiting trial on a misdemeanor count of corruption of minors.
She told The Associated Press, “I don’t know what I was thinking” when asked about the charge filed last year while she was a bus monitor at Creative Minds Daycare Academy in Allentown.
Lehigh County prosecutors say Gyles had a half-dozen children direct obscenities toward another child then made videos of that and sent one to a friend, which wound up on Facebook.
The daycare is appealing its state license suspension.