Disturbing video shows cop discovery of daycare dungeon holding dozens of children
Carla Faith, who was sentenced to six years in prison in August 2021, will soon make a bid for parole
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Haunting footage shows the moment authorities discovered a concealed dungeon in the basement of a Colorado home where 26 children were kept.
Carla Faith, 63, was sentenced to six years in prison after she was found guilty of child abuse and other charges in August 2021.
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Body-cam footage from the November 2019 discovery by the Colorado Springs Police Department was widely shared on social media over the weekend as the convicted child abuser makes a bid for freedom at a parole hearing in three months, KOAA reported.
The video shows cops carrying out their search of Faith’s Mountain Play Place daycare centre after receiving reports that the facility was caring for more children than permitted.
Children’s music can be heard playing inside the residence as officers knock on the front door.
No one answers but the music is abruptly turned off, the video shows.
Officers eventually enter the home where Faith tells cops repeatedly that the property does not have a basement and “the kids are at the park.”
Officers then hear music playing from a vent and an unseen child crying, which launches their hunt in the chilling footage for a way to get downstairs.
An officer soon finds a false wall covering the actual wall and pushes on it, sliding it over and revealing a set of stairs.
Two daycare staffers are then found hiding 26 young children, who were hot, thirsty and wearing soiled diapers.
Police responded to the daycare after a parent who dropped off a child that morning requested a welfare check.
The daycare, which was only licensed to care for six children, was closed along with another facility Faith owned.
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Faith also had previously been cited for other violations while running daycares in homes in California in the 1990s.
She was convicted in August 2021 of 26 counts of misdemeanor child abuse, a felony count of attempting to influence a public servant, and a misdemeanor count of running a childcare facility without a licence.
Faith was sentenced to six years in prison in October 2021.
Three other daycare workers were initially arrested for misdemeanor child neglect but the charges against them were dropped.
Faith appeared before a parole board in August 2024, KOAA reported, but she was not granted early release at the time.
She will try again at a hearing in August.
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