Baby abandoned at day-care after staff mistakes her for doll

A father showed up at All Things Are Possible For Kids day-care in Chicago to pick up his daughter and found the door locked and the building dark. A father showed up at All Things Are Possible For Kids day-care in Chicago to pick up his daughter and found the door locked and the building dark. Photo: Google Maps Photo: Google Maps Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Baby abandoned at day-care after staff mistakes her for doll 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A dad who arrived at a Chicago day-care's nursery to pick up his 1-year-old daughter found the building shuttered 15 minutes before closing Monday.

Then Cornelius Jones heard screams through the locked door at the All Things are Possible for Kids center and called 911.

Firefighters forced entry, but couldn't find little girl, Journee, in the dark nursery.

"I was wondering where is she, where is she?" Jones told Fox 32. "I hear her, but I couldn't see her. And one of the police officers flashed a light to the left and flashed it back to the right and that's when I saw her crawling towards us screaming and my heart just dropped."

Journee's mother, Quanesha Borum, said the day center director apologized to her, but gave an explanation that she found unacceptable.

"She told me that they thought Journee was a doll," Borum said.

The Department of Children and Family Services is investigating the incident.

Jones wants the nursery closed.

"If anything, it should be shut down. I mean nobody leaves kids behind, toddlers. I don't care how old they are, that's dangerous," he said.