SCRANTON, Pa. — Vanessa Molina-Ramos left Central Court on Thursday evening, now charged with abusing a baby at a daycare in Scranton.

Court paperwork says Ramos slapped a one-year-old and pulled his hair while working in the infant room at learn and Grow Early Childhood Daycare Center.

She is charged with simple assault and endangering the welfare of children.

This all began a week ago, when state authorities shut down the center on Saint Ann Street, leaving parents scrambling to pick up their children and forcing more than 100 families to find a new place for care.

Gilbert Barr, a parent, says, "So now all these parents are displaced with children, we have absolutely nowhere to go with our kids."

On Monday, the first co-owner of Learn and Grow Daycare, Amy Ware , turned herself

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