Insets: Photos provided by Myla Hemingway’s mother, Tamara Hemingway, showing her hair before and after the 2-year-old’s braid was pulled out (WABC/YouTube). Background: Growing Kids Academy in Ocean Township, N.J., where Myla Hemingway went to day care (WABC/YouTube).
A New Jersey mother says she is taking legal action against a day care that has given her no explanation for how her 2-year-old daughter came home last week with one of her “cornrow” hair braids missing from her head — claiming they didn’t know if her child “pulled it out” herself or whether something more nefarious happened.
“You have to use some type of force for a braid to be removed,” Tamara Hemingway told New York ABC station WABC about her daughter, Myla, and what happened to her.
“It was a cornrow so it was braided down to her scalp,” Hemingway said. “There’s no way that, I don’t know who could have done it, but I know for a fact she or a kid would not have done that.”
