Toddler's Ear 'Torn Off And EATEN' On Second Day At Nursery!

Police are now investigating after the boy needed 10 stitches for the wound and spent two nights in hospital    

A toddler had part of his ear ‘torn off’on his second day at a nursery.

Little Daniyaal Abubaker, who will be two on Sunday, suffered the injury to his right lobe at Mucky Pups Day Nursery in Birmingham.

West Midlands Police are now investigating after Daniyall needed 10 stitches for the wound and spent two nights in hospital.

His horrified mum Afsha, 26, claims the family was given different versions of the incident by nursery staff - including that he had been bitten by another child.

And she says she was told the torn piece of ear, which has never been found, may have been ‘eaten’ by the other child.

Mrs Abubaker, a carer, said: “We still don’t know what happened to our son to this day, but to see your son in terrible pain with part of his ear missing was just horrific.

“I couldn’t stop crying. Daniyaal has been left traumatised.”

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Just days after the alleged incident on September 25, Ofsted inspectors visited the nursery and rated it ‘inadequate’.

They also claimed risk assessments were not “rigorous enough” and stated the nursery did not “address all safety issues”.

Ofsted inspectors gave the private nursery a rating of 4 ‘inadequate’ and flagged up health and safety issues as an area of concern.

The report said: “Risks assessments are not rigorous enough as they do not address all safety issues in the nursery and staff do not help children learn how to be safe during activities.”

The report said that if the nursery didn’t make the necessary improvements, enforcement action would be taken. It will be inspected again next year.

Mrs Abubaker said she received a call at around 11.30am on September 25 from nursery owner Paula Tidmus to say her son had injured his ear in a fall and that he “might require stitches”.

But she claims her sister-in-law Madiha Hamid phoned the nursery shortly afterwards, only to be told Daniyaal had been punched.

 

Mrs Abubaker also claims another sister-in-law, Arooj Arooj, picked injured Daniyaal up from the nursery, where Mrs Tidmus told her that he had been “bitten” by another child there.

Mrs Abubaker said: “I contacted police as I have heard different versions of events and don’t know exactly what happened to my son that day.

“When I spoke to Paula again, and asked her what had happened to the piece of ear, she said the child must have swallowed it.”

Owner Paula Tidmus said: “I am making no comment as this is in the hands of my solicitors and insurers.”

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “Specialist officers from West Midlands Police Public Protection Unit are reviewing an incident, in which a young child suffered an injury to his ear.

“Officers are in the process of contacting the family and relevant agencies, including Children’s Social Care, as part of the ongoing inquiry.” A Daily Star report