I was looking up Cesar Sayoc's relatives on Intelius.com and found a Christina S Villasana, which I now know is his sister. Villasana has two work places listed. The first is called Forum Communications Company which is based in North Dakota and doesn't seem to have any connection to Florida.
Forum Communications Company is a multimedia news company with locations across ND, SD, MN and WI. We have over 1,700 employees that work towards a common goal, delivering quality products and information to our clients and viewers. We publish both print and online versions of our newspapers.
But the second workplace she has is called Young Kids Academy. Well the only Young Kids Academy I could find in Florida is actually called Young Kidz Academy and its in Hollywood, Florida which is a place of residence listed on Villasana's Intelius. Looking at the reviews on Google for Young Kidz Academy is very disturbing.
The reviews talk about bullied children, abusive staff, underfeeding, smells of ammonia and excrement, kids getting sick, constant turnover of staff. When you go to their Facebook page they have just four reviews and at least a couple of them are from fake accounts and one is from someone who works for Broward County's education department. Then you go to their Instagram page which features lots of photos of children in photoshoots, but very few of the real children or the daycare centre itself. Their whole online presence appears fake and manufactured. Their website is a complete unfinished mess.
This is how they advertised their Water day Wednesday:
Rainbow unicorn
More links:
Instagram
Google reviews
Facebook with fake reviews
Christina S Villasana
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Vindicator ago
Hi rickman2. Might want to add the DCF profile page to this showing their inspections. A quick perusal showed that inspectors could not confirm any of the complaints articulated in the negtive reviews. I didn't read them all, but this one had a staff member missing a background check as well as use of a child's image on social media without parental permission: https://cares.myflfamilies.com/InspectionReport/PublicReport?id=426417. There are many reports on the DCF page that show various violations, including one that showed they weren't keeping admissions records of who the kids were allowed to be released to. Their last few inspections were all compliant.
I think you're right that the numerous five-star Google reviews seem fake. But we ought to note that the one-star reviews all seem to be made by the same disgruntled parent.
Do we have any idea what role Villasana plays at the daycare? Who owns it? Does she, or is she just a teacher?