A Minneapolis man never could have imagined the horrifying scene that was about to unfold when he went to drop off his child at Uptown Daycare this past Friday.
The dad headed to the local daycare facility around 10am Friday morning as usual, reports Fox9.
But when he got inside he noticed that daycare owner Nataliia Mykhaylivna Karia, 43, wasn't “acting right."
A man was dropping off his child at day care when he noticed the day care provider, Natalia Karia, 42, was not acting right. Karia reportedly told him she "couldn't take it anymore" and asked him to look at what she did, the charges say.
The man said he heard a child crying in the basement and ran downstairs, where he found a 16-month-old child hanging in the air from a noose attached to the ceiling. He pulled the baby down and ran from the house.
The victim's mom said she had started bringing her child to the day care within the past three weeks. The community was even more shocked by what happened next.
As she was driving away, she also struck one of the drivers who had gotten out of his vehicle and dragged him with her car for over 10 blocks. The pedestrian suffered a broken ankle, broken ribs, and multiple abrasions.
Several people who had witnessed her hit the bicyclist attempted to physically stop her, but she continued driving. The man had to crawl out of the intersection where he'd been struck to avoid further injury.
He's happy the injuries weren't worse, considering the rampage that Karia was on.
Several people stopped her and held her at the scene until police arrived.
Karia was also charged with third-degree assault on the 16-month-old boy and two counts of criminal vehicular operation for hitting a pedestrian and a bicyclist as she fled in her minivan.
Investigators found two pairs of child-sized tights hanging from a ceiling pipe in the basement of Karia's home. They add the tights were tied together to form a noose and directly below the noose was a child-sized chair.
Karia is in police custody at HCMC. Prosecutors are seeking $2 million in bail.
