Katie's Kids Learning Center may be closed for good, a month after a toddler was found dead in a hot van outside the Delray Beach facility.
The facility has gone broke in the wake of the investigation, as state and federal funds have been pulled because of the 2-year-old girl's shocking death, the Palm Beach Post reports.
On Aug. 5, police say the school van's driver, Amanda Inman, picked up kids that morning, but when she arrived to drop the children off at the daycare, she forgot Haile Brockington inside. The toddler was locked inside the steaming van the entire day and eventually died.
Inman has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child, but the incident has proved to deal a fatal blow to the daycare.
Brockington's family has filed a civil suit against the center's owners and children's advocates have asked for the vital funding that kept the daycare open be pulled.
So far, $200,000 in state funding has been pulled from Katie's Kids, which will close the center for at least a month. That money paid for most of the low-income families that use the center.
