Ex-day care owner charged with criminal sexual conduct involving girl, 11

Posted under Burnsville,News on Tuesday 31 August 2010 at 11:48 am

by John Gessner
Thisweek Newspapers

A 55-year-old man is charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving an 11-year-old girl at his former day care in Burnsville.

Kay Willard Brown, Eden Prairie, was charged Aug. 25 in Dakota County. The girl, now 13, told police in April that the alleged incidents occurred in summer 2008.

“We have no indications of any other child making any claims of being improperly touched,” Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said.

Brown and his wife owned the Kid Kare day care in Burnsville for about 11 years, Backstrom said. The business closed in January 2008, he said.

According to the criminal complaint, the girl told police that on one occasion, with no one else present, Brown told her to do a handstand in the center of the room. When she did, he allegedly wrapped her legs around his waist and began licking her stomach after pulling her shirt up to the middle of her chest.

The girl told three friends at the day care about the incident, “but told them not to say anything because she was scared,” the complaint said.

Another incident allegedly occurred in the day care’s “adult” bathroom. Brown allegedly pulled the girl into the bathroom, shut the door, had her bend over and licked her buttocks over her shorts.

The girl told police she tried to push Brown away and asked him to stop before breaking free of his grasp.

She ran and told friends what had happened, after which Brown approached her and whispered, “This is our secret,” the complaint said.

The girl told police “she was terrified, scared, and confused all at the same time and remembers it as the worst day of her life,” the complaint said.

When contacted by police, Brown denied any inappropriate touching.

John Gessner is at burnsville.thisweek@ecm-inc.com.

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