Toddler Bitten 25 Times at Maharashtra Pre School While Locked in Room With No Staff

A toddler aged 23 months is understood to have received no fewer than 25 bites from a fellow child at a private day nursery in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, after a member of staff allegedly locked the pair and another youngster in a room and went away. The entire incident was captured on the CCTV camera and the clip has gone viral.

The disturbing incident occurred on 22 June at the Firstcry Intellitots pre-school in CIDCO, where a 29-year-old solicitor had dropped her son off at about half past ten that morning. In the footage, a female carer is visible sitting among four boys at play. Some thirty minutes later, one of the children made an attempt to leave through the door.

Moments later, she leaves the room with that same child, leaving the three boys inside. As nobody was around to monitor the kids, the children became frightened and began to cry, trying desperately to open the door.

It was during this interval that one of the boys launched an attack on another with his teeth, while the third stood paralysed by fear. The video footage indicates that biting happens 25 separate times across a span 30 minutes, between 11am and 11:30am.

Authorities have confirmed that the the boy sustained severe injuries to his face, nose, lips, chest, back, and legs.

It has emerged that the school did not alert the parents until 2pm that afternoon. When they arrived to pick their child, the principal informed them that he had suffered scratches. Once reaching home, they were shocked to to find extensive wounds covering his entire body.

The child was subsequently admitted to a private hospital in the city for treatment.

A formal police complaint was submitted by the parents at the station, and charges have now been filed against six employees of the nursery, among them CEO Shubham Maheshwari, who resides in Pune, managers Mangesh Musale and Vaibhav Sawade, principal Kanchan Yewale, and the female carer involved.

It is reported that the school tried to close the matter by offering Rs 10 lakh and three years of free schooling to the boy in order to prevent the angry parents from filing a case. In fact, the school threatened that they cannot "harm" them.