Event Brief
Two charged after 3-year-old wanders from daycare
Filed: May 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM ET
Summary: Two women face charges after a 3-year-old was left unsupervised for about 15 minutes at a Jamestown Head Start center.
WHO: Michelle Phillips (54) and Melinda Seay (64)
WHAT: Charged with reckless endangerment and child abuse/neglect after a 3-year-old wandered unsupervised from a Head Start childcare center
WHEN: May 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM ET
WHERE: Jamestown Community Center (L.B.J.&C. Head Start), Jamestown, Tennessee
WHY: The child was left unsupervised for about 15 minutes; investigators found no safety gate as Seay claimed.
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