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Former daycare worker pleads no contest after state says children were given melatonin
Summary
Jordan Hannah Darnell entered a no-contest plea to attempted child abuse in Dixon County Court and received probation after the state said she gave children melatonin at Mimi’s Daycare, causing severe reactions; co-defendants remain under investigation.
Jordan Hannah Darnell, a former employee at Mimi’s Daycare in Stewart County, pleaded no contest May 20 in Dixon County Criminal Court to one count of attempted child abuse and was sentenced to probation under a negotiated agreement. The plea resolves part of an indictment that accused Darnell and others of administering drugs to children in the daycare.
The state told the court it would prove that “between May first of 2021 and March 25th of 2022, the defendant Jordan H. Darnell … periodically gave 30 milligrams of melatonin to children under the ages of 8 … while those children were at Mimi’s daycare,” Assistant…
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