The owner of the Franklin Spring Academy Child Care Center in Chapel Hill, TN, Corey Proctor, has been arrested.
Proctor, 35 of Shelbyville, was arrested Thursday, August 15th on two charges each of r*pe and incest.
The arrest comes on the back of other allegations of child abuse against the facility uncovered by a news investigation in February.
In that report, it was found that teachers at the facility had been abusing students, some of them without facing consequences for a while. The Academy was also not self-reporting these instances to a state database intended to make parents aware of such incidents.
A concerned parent who revealed Proctor’s arrest also reported her own experience with the facility.
“I have gone back and forth about posting about this place for a very long time but enough is enough. Last November we immediately pulled our daughter out of Franklin Springs Academy in Chapel Hill TN because she came home with an untreated open wound that we still do not know how it occurred.
“We had filed a case with DHS, etc and were told there was not enough evidence to do anything about it. The owner, Corey Proctor was arrested last night on 2 counts of rape. Do not send your children here, they are not safe here. I have seen and read countless stories of abuse on social media groups and even this news story – The fact that the state of Tennessee allows these people to run a childcare center is despicable and disgusting. I am disappointed in our justice system.
“This family owns multiple businesses in our area and not a single one of them will EVER see a penny from my family.
As a mother, I have mixed feelings… guilt for letting my daughter ever be around these people, rage due to the way that they so willingly harm and mistreat children, and sadness for all of the victims,” they wrote on Facebook.