Amber Seiler did not answer our reporter’s question during her arraignment late Friday night about whether or not she spat on a child. The 29-year-old Kenova worker was charged with two counts of assault and battery on a disabled child. Parents Ashley Shaffer and Bethany Bird can’t believe this was happening while their kids were going to daycare.

“This is exactly what it feels like to pay for someone to abuse my child.

He is very sick,” Shaffer said.

“Yeah, it’s horrible and there’s nothing we can do except what we’re doing right now,” Bird said.

Shaffer learned of the abuse after a former newspaper teacher broke her silence.

“She told me she didn’t work here anymore because there was a lot of shady stuff going on. So I asked her what she meant by that and she said abuse was going on at the center that Amber was hitting kids in the mouth. I didn’t know anything about spitting until the next day,” Shaffer explained.

She received audio of Seiler allegedly yelling and spitting and immediately called the police.

“He spoke to me on the phone and told me there was almost nothing I could do.

It was a civil case,” Shaffer said. “So I was really upset. I went home that night and called CPS and filed a report with them and then posted the video on social media because I knew if the police wouldn’t do anything. There are a lot of angry moms out there and they wouldn’t like that video.”

Her post has been viewed thousands of times on social media. Bird was unaware of any abuse until she opened Facebook that night.

“I didn’t find out because my child told me. I didn’t find out because I came to the center and they told me something was going on,” Bird said.

Bird’s child is one of two autistic children in her class and she feels her child has been targeted because they are non-verbal. Both mothers say they are working to make sure this doesn’t happen to another child.

“I will tell every parent that goes in there and tries to enroll their child. That daycare is nothing but child abusers,” Shaffer said.

Seiler is being held in South Central Regional Jail on $50,000 cash bail or surety in addition to two $1,500 bonds or misdemeanor bond. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 6 at 1 p.m