Toddler Badly Burnt Whilst At Nursery

Distraught mum’s horror as Toddler Badly Burnt Whilst At Nursery

Little Reuben’s face was scalded in the accident at Bridge End House Nursery, Fixby

Reuben’s mum has told of how she was left feeling “hysterical and distraught” after her toddlers face was scalded following an accident at a Fixby nursery.

Sarah Jane Walker, 29, of Deighton said she couldn’t believe what she was hearing when the manager at Bridge End House Nursery told paramedics what had happened  to her 18-month-old son Reuben Adams.

Sarah said: “I was working in Huddersfield town centre when I got a call from the nursery manager at 3.30pm. I was told he had been burned. I put the phone down and went as fast as I could to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary where an ambulance had taken him.

“I got there and Reuben’s key worker and nursery manager were there. He was in an awful state. I got hold of Reuben and took him out of the nursery nurse’s arms and they left.

“I was in hysterics. I was crying. I didn’t want him to see me so upset. He was given morphine and transferred to Pinderfields General Hospital. My mum was there.

“He has had some more morphine to clean the wounds. He couldn’t sleep and I was with him all night.

We are hopin with time the scars will fade and that he grows up with no memory of this pain.

She said paramedics were told by nursery staff that her son had apparently opened the safety gate and went into the kitchen area and has somehow been injured by a bowl of boiling water used to warm a baby bottle.

“Reuben is my only baby and I’m mortified that this has happened in the care of a qualified Ofsted registered nursery that I researched before registering him.

“I had put my trust in this nursery so I could go to work to give Reuben everything possible.

“Reuben will not be returning to the nursery ever again.”