Brooklyn Day Care Forgets 2-Year-Old at Playground

Photo courtesy of @NYPD72Pct/Twitter

Quality of Life Academy, a day care service in Sunset Park, reportedly left two-year-old Ethan Huachi alone in a Superman T-shirt at a local playground on Thursday.

According to Tony Giordano, a community activist who runs the Sunset Parker group on Facebook, “folks in the park called the police” after Quality of Life Academy ”did a wrong headcount and left him behind.”

The NYPD’s 72nd precinct quickly blasted a call for any information on the boy via Twitter. ”Please help locate the parents!” the precinct wrote.

Just over an hour later, the boy had been reunited with his mother.

According to Giordano, the 6,400 members of his Facebook group spread the word so quickly that Giordano had his hands on the boy’s name and his parents’ contact info within 10 minutes.

“The police were amazed and wish they would have called us sooner,” he wrote.

”I am just so proud, this demonstrates that we are a Town and that we watch out for our own,” he added.

The boy’s mother, Diana Huachi — although relieved to be reunited with her toddler — told ABC News that she’s horrified by the day care’s negligence.

“He was being taken to the park with three teachers and those three teachers didn’t notice that he wasn’t there until later,” Huachi said. “They said that they just miscounted the students.”

“What gets me so angry,” she said, “is that the day care did not call me until 4:30 and my son has been missing since 12.”

Quality of Life Academy did not return a request for comment. No one was answering the day care’s phone line on Friday afternoon.

City officials have since suspended the day care’s license, reports NBC New York.

A spokesman for the NYPD told Patch that police are questioning all individuals involved and looking into the validity of their licenses. However, no charges have been filed.

“Anything could have happened!” Huachi told ABC. “I mean, anybody — a psycho — could have taken him somewhere and that would have been the last day for me to see him this morning, dropping him off.”