Nursery worker press her hands on infants face for more than three minutes and killed her for being fussy

The grieving couple say the center was negligent in letting 19 year-old Dejoynay Ferguson care for four-month old Isabella unsupervised. Ferguson, who is also named in the civil suit, was arrested after police discovered horrific surveillance camera footage said to show her putting Isabella on a changing table before pressing her hands on the infants face for more than three minutes.

That act of abuse is said to have left Isabella ‘unresponsive and lifeless’ and ultimately killed her. Ferguson, who has been charged with first-degree murder, reportedly told police she’d killed Isabella because she wouldn’t stop crying and being ‘fussy,’ Delaware Online reported.

The Little People Child Development Center

State officials shut down The Little People shortly after Isabella’s murder, but allowed it to reopen three weeks later. The family’s lawyer Timothy Lengeek said the lawsuit, which names the center and Ferguson as defendants, is intended to ensure ‘this does not happen to another baby.’