https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15074775/judge-releases-daycare-worker-yvette-thurston-child-abuse-georgia.html
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A judge has been bombarded with threats after she granted bail to a Georgia daycare worker accused of battering a one-year-old boy.
Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Rose-Emmons released accused child abuser Yvette Thurston on a $44,000 bond on August 16.
Thurston, 54, of Bainbridge, is charged with leaving one-year-old Clay Weeks with a black eye and deep scratches on his face and neck after his first day at school.
District Attorney Joe Mulholland released a statement a few days after Thurston was released on bail condemning the threats sent to Rose-Emmons.
Mulholland said his office would prosecute anyone who sent menaces to the judge, saying it would 'not tolerate threats against our judges'.
'The rule of law is the foundation of our community,' the district attorney wrote.
'Our judges deserve to perform their duties without fear for their safety. You may not like their decisions, but you don't have the right to threaten them or their families.'
Thurston has been charged with first-degree aggravated battery and three counts of first-degree child abuse. The child's father said she tried to blame another pupil when asked how his son got so badly bruised.
The victim's father, Cory Weeks, said Thurston abused his son following his first day of school at Little Blessings Child Care in Bainbridge, south-west Georgia.
It wasn't until the suspicious father watched surveillance footage that they found out what really happened to his son.
'Nothing we saw was for the faint-hearted, especially happening to such an innocent soul,' Weeks wrote.
Thurston was arrested on August 11, and the church daycare center was temporarily closed.
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