Powell v. State

Johnson, Judge.

Delores Powell operated a child daycare facility in her home. When an 11-month-old child entrusted to her care sustained a head injury and had difficulty breathing, Powell telephoned for an ambu lance, telling emergency medical personnel that the child had fallen head first out of an infant swing onto the floor. The child was taken to the emergency room of a children’s hospital, where she was diagnosed as having a skull fracture, blood on the brain, blood under the scalp, and retinal hemorrhaging and folds. Physicians who examined the child opined that her injuries were…