PATASKALA, Ohio — A former employee at a Pataskala day care was charged after she allegedly used painter’s tape to bind a 1-year-old child and left her unattended.

Katelyn Strohacker, 23, has been charged with child endangerment following an incident that was reported to have happened on July 21, 2025 at Over the Rainbow Children Center in Pataskala .

According to a criminal complaint filed in Licking County Common Pleas Court, Strohacker allegedly placed painter’s tape over the child’s eyes, restrained her hands behind her back and feet together, then left her face down under a blanket unattended.

The center's director later told the child’s parent that Strohacker had bound and left the infant in bed for an hour, records say.

The parent then contacted the Licking County Sheriff’s Of

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