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Delray Daycare Worker Had 2 Chances To Save Child

DELRAY BEACH (CBS4) - The Delray Beach daycare worker who left little Haile Brockington in a hot van to die told police "it was an honest mistake."

CBS12 is reporting startling details on the August tragedy that claimed the 2-year-old child's life where the van driver Amanda Inman had not one, but two chances to find the toddler. "I wouldn't say I was rushing. You know, it was an accident. An honest mistake," she said.

In roughly 4 hours of interviews, Inman is matter-of-fact. At times, alone in the room, Inman buries her head in her hands. Detectives wanted to know how she could forget a toddler Haile Brockington in a daycare van for 7 hours, in the sweltering August heat.

"I really don't even remember. Like I say I thought she got off with everybody else," she said.

Inman told police she had only been working for Katies Kids for about 3 weeks, and although they had a checklist, she was never trained on it, but she admits that day that she filled in the checklist to show that Haile got off.

"Usually I will try. I look back, I don't go row by row. Because they, I never knew that you have to go row by row or whatever," Inman said.

CBS12 learned Inman actually had a second chance that day to discover Haile. After Haile was left in the van at about 9:15 in the morning, Inman was back in the same van a few hours later at 2pm, when she drove to visit an ex-coworker, all the while little Haile was dying or already dead in the back.

Inman is free on bond, awaiting trial for aggravated manslaughter of a child.

And the daycare center in Delray Beach at 111 SW 10th Avenue where the tragedy happened has since been closed after its state funding was pulled as a result of this incident.

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