State Pulls License of Missoula Day Care Center

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The state has revoked the license of a Missoula day care center whose owner and two staff members were cited with negligent endangerment after a 4-year-old boy was reportedly left in a van during a movie outing.

Tot Town owner Melanie Hoke tells the Associated Press she plans to fight the revocation.

The state Department of Public Health and Human Services wrote to Hoke on Wednesday informing her that the license revocation will be effective Aug. 21.

In the meantime, DPHHS says Hoke and the two cited staff members are not allowed to be present at the day care while the charges are pending.

DPHHS says investigators also found staffers administered medication to the 4-year-old without authorization when they found him red and his clothes soaked in sweat after the movie.