energetic 2-year-old but here he is sitting in a highchair which he no longer uses his usual smile replaced by a frown and his mother is heartbroke been it, that s because workers at heavenly haven learning center two placed had imin the chair and posted this picture to instagram purely to make fun of him. the day care center s manager joined in poking fun at ethan s delayed speech development writing in part thinking, cuz sure can t talk. in another incident the employee mocked another child for his teeth. when ethan s mother, melissa saw the photo on instagram she was curious, alerted the day care center and the media. both the employee and the manager have since been fired for violating the kday care s privacy policy. in a statement the day care says a heavenly haven s position on the actions of the employees involved zero tolerance and the employees have been terminated. virginia s department of social services is now investigating.
and the outfit the little boy had on was what ethan wore to day care today. i was like wow this really is ethan and that s a how i fund out about it. putting your kid on instagram without your approval that s an obvious no-no but there s something deeper to talk about. ethan has delayed speech development, a lot of kids have that, they can grow into t get help, but you you put this kid into the care of these people and you see the photo online and how they re using it. what did it mean to you? it meant at my house we don t make fun of each other of our shortcomings, things that are out of our control and things that we things that we need extra help with we don t tease each other about. it was so foreign i figured they don t care about ethan. he s not important to them if they can do this to him and that s how i felt from that. that s your rule among family, those who have somewhat of a right to talk about each
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joining us now on all of this is melissa jordan, her little son, ethan is the one you saw there at the top. melissa, thank you for joining us this morning. you re welcome. thanks for having me. now i hear ethan is there. i heard he s in a little bit of a mood. i got a toddler at home so i appreciate you just letting him do his thing because as we know you re not going to make them do whatever you want but tell us not going to happen. he s unaware of this at his age but you know what this is about all too well, yes? he s doing well. yes, he s unaware of what s going on because he s only 20. 2. it s got to hurt and i m sorry. tell us how you found out about this? i found out through a mutual friend who happened to be instagram friends with her so she came upon the picture and said, this looks a lot like ethan, and she forwarded it to me and from there i was like wow, that looks a lot like ethan
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