Kentucky day care worker accused of pulling 1-year-old child’s hair, causing bald spot

LEITCHFIELD, Ky. (TCN) — Authorities recently arrested a 24-year-old day care worker on suspicion of pulling out a “substantial amount” of a child’s hair.

Leitchfield Police launched an investigation after receiving a report on March 11 that a 1-year-old child sustained suspicious injuries at a local day care facility. Officials obtained surveillance footage from the center that showed day care worker Keshia Cochran watching over a room of small children. She allegedly approached the victim and then pulled the child’s hair.

The 1-year-old reportedly screamed “uncontrollably” and Cochran threw a suspected handful of hair into a trash can. Police said the victim had a bald spot on just over 2 inches of the scalp.

On March 12, investigators interviewed Cochran, and she confessed to intentionally pulling and removing a “substantial amount of hair” from the victim’s head. Cochran was arrested and booked into the Grayson County Jail on a charge of first-degree criminal abuse.

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