The parents of a young girl who died after she was left in a hot van outside her Delray Beach day care center have added the owners of the facility to the wrongful death lawsuit they filed last week.
Kathryn Muhammad and Barbara Dilthey, owners of Katie's Kids Learning Center, are accused of active negligence in the death of 2-year-old Haile Brockington on August 5.
Brockington's mother, Nelder Lester, filed the lawsuit last week against the center and the driver of the van who left the young girl in the car for nearly six hours.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for pain and suffering and medical and funeral expenses.
Muhammad said the van driver has already been fired and that the procedures for transporting children at Katie's Kids and the other facilities she owns will be improved.
The Department of Children and Families is still investigating the death.
Meanwhile, the approximately $600,000 in government money that Katie's Kids receives each year could be pulled if a Palm Beach County committee decides to stop allowing the center to receive subsidies.
The committee is expected to meet Thursday afternoon.
