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    Jamaica Estates couple charged with horrific infant abuse at home daycare: DA

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    A Queens grand jury indicted a married couple from Jamaica Estates for abusing nine infants and toddlers at the daycare center they operated in the home on 188th Street near Midland Parkway, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Thursday.

    Ilya Davydov, 48, and Ksenia Davydov, 41, promised to provide a “safe, caring, and nurturing environment” for the children entrusted into their care. Instead, they allegedly grabbed and kicked babies, shoved a soiled diaper into a baby’s mouth and dropped one child onto a table with such force that his hearing aids detached from his head.

    The Davydovs were arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday.

    “The allegations in this case are a working parent’s worst nightmare,” Katz said. “As a mother of two boys, I understand the extreme care that parents take in researching and selecting daycares for their children. At the bare minimum, parents should be able to rely on a child’s basic needs being met and the safety of their children is assured.

    According to the charges and investigation, Ksenia Davydov had a New York state license to operate KSE Service Inc., a daycare center in her Jamaica Estates home, since 2015.

    In late December 2023, acting on an anonymous tip that children were being abused inside the home at 82-21 188th St., the police and the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, which licenses child daycare facilities, visited the location and immediately shut it down for various violations. In addition, the NYPD obtained a court-authorized search warrant for the premises, and a large cache of video surveillance cameras was recovered. Read more..

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