The Corrective Action Plan included with the lWritten
Warning is enclosed and is a part of this Notice. An
unannounced visit will be made by a Child Abuse/Neglect
Consultant to verify compliance with the Corrective Action
Plan. Documentation to support compliance with the
Corrective Action Plan is required. Unless otherwise
noted, compliance with the Corrective Action Plan shall
occur within two weeks after this Notice is received.
Failure to comply with the Corrective Action Plan could
result in further administrative action up to and including
revocation and the assessment of a Civil Penalty up to five
hundred dollars ($500.00) as authorized by Child Care
Rules 10A NCAC 0'9 .l904(d) and Training
required in tile Corrective Action Plan not be
caicuittied as part of an empioyee?s turn uni its-service
training hours.

BASIS FOR ACTION-

On August 12, 2005, a Child Abusez?Neglect Consultant of the Division of Child
Development visited Tabernacle Christian Day Care to investigate a report alleging child
neglect. On September 8, 2005, the Division of Child Development received written
noti?cation from Union County Detiartment of Social Services that child neglect was
substantiated at the conclusion of that agency's investigation of the report. The
substantiation is based on inappropriate discipline of an eleven-year?old child by the
center director. A substantiation of child neglect in a child care facility is a violation of
North Carolina General Statute 1 

The investigation determined that on August 10, 2005, Scott Couick, the center director,
spanked an eleven-year-old child with a wooden paddle because the child spit in another
child?s face. Mr. Couick gave the child ??ve licks? with the paddle, which is a piece of
wood about twelve inches long, two inches wide and one half inch thick. The paddle
does not have a handle. Mr. Couick said that he gripped the end of the piece of wood
when he spanked the child. An adult witness was in the room when Mr. Couick Spanked
the child.

Mr. Couick called the child to the office and explained why the child was getting a
spanking. Mr. Couick got down on his knees and asked the child to lay down ?at on the
?oor on his stomach in front of him. After each strike of the paddle, Mr. Couick talked to
the child about his behavior. After the second strike the child began crying and said he
would not do it again. After the punishment, he and the child prayed together. The
investigation determined that bruises, resembling the size and shape of the paddle, were
left on the child?s buttocks as a result of the spanking, a violation of North Carolina
General Statute 10-91(10) regarding discipline of children.