Happiness is acute sunburn at fun park

29 July 2015 - 02:09 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A US daycare centre is being investigated for neglect after two young boys were hospitalised with severe sunburn following a trip to a water park. Connor Harvey, 7, and Tray Wells, 5, were in the care of the Happiness is a Learning Centre in Oklahoma when they were taken to Splash Pad theme park on Friday last week during a heat wave that reached 47C.The boys' mother, Shaunna Broadway, 26, said she found her children in agony when she picked them up. She claimed on NewsOn6 that the centre's staff had run out of sun screen, so had told the boys to wear T-shirts but had failed to enforce this.At around 2am on Monday, three days after the trip, Broadway took her sons to Tulsa Hospital with blisters and intensified burns.The children were airlifted to Shriner's Hospital for Children in Galveston Texas for treatment due to the severity of their burns.Both boys experienced second-degree burns. Harvey also suffered third-degree burns. The burns on his back were so acute that he was having trouble breathing, Broadway told BuzzFeed.The boys' blisters were lanced, the burnt skin removed and they were in wraps that were repeatedly being changed, grandfather Wayne Broadway told MailOnline.They will have to stay in Galveston Hospital for up to five days.Ms Broadway's sister, Amanda Harvey, posted photos showing the severity of the boys' burns on Facebook, where they have been shared over 1700 times.The photos showed Harvey prior to his admittance to hospital with an extremely large blister on his back. No other children on the trip to the theme park are reported to have experienced severe burns.Police officer Bobby Floyd told BuzzFeed that police were investigating any criminal element of neglect with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and conducting interviews with the daycare centre.Floyd said the police will also interview other parents and the hospital to determine whether there were elements of child abuse or neglect by the daycare centre. The centre has not made a comment...

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