Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced on Friday, Dec. 2, that a Bronx daycare worker has been charged with sexually abusing two young girls under his care. The victims were allegedly abused over a 5-year period at a family-operated daycare facility.

 

In the context of the announcement, Clark said, “No child should be subjected to sexual abuse, especially in a place where they should have been safe. This defendant allegedly used his family’s daycare facility to get access to children and prey on them in unfathomable ways.”

 

Clark said the defendant, Jamie Sanchez, 30, currently of Bradenton, Florida, was arraigned on Friday on charges of “first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child,” two counts of “second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child,” and two counts of “endangering the welfare of a child” before Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas. Bail was set at $200,000 cash, $200,000 bond, $200,000 partially secured bond.

 

According to the investigation, between 2015 and 2020, Sanchez worked at “My Precious Little Angels Daycare,” located at 1238 Reverend James A. Polite Avenue in the Foxhurst section in the southern section of the Bronx. Sanchez allegedly sexually abused two girls at the facility on multiple occasions and at different locations inside the daycare facility, which was operated by the defendant’s family.

 

One of the victims was aged between two and five years when the abuse occurred. The other victim was aged between eight and ten years. The parents of each girl reported the alleged assaults, separately, to police in 2022. The defendant, who had moved to Florida in 2020, was extradited to New York on November 30, 2022.

 

The case is being prosecuted by assistant district attorney, Christopher Conway, of the Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau, under the supervision of Johanna Hernandez, deputy chief of the Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau, Mimi Mairs, chief of the Child Abuse/Sex Crimes Bureau, and under the overall supervision of Adrienne Giunta, deputy chief of Special Victims Division and Joseph Muroff, chief of the Special Victims Division.

 

Clark thanked trial preparation assistant, Ti-Aana Hylton, crime victims assistance bureau advocate, Kimberly Villanueva, and Bronx D.A. Detective Investigators Jennifer Garcia and Fernando Nunez for their assistance in the case. She also thanked NYPD Detectives Julia Watson and Sai Bharadwaj from the Bronx Special Victims Squad for their work on the investigation.

 

A person charged with a crime is deemed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law. Sanchez is due back in court on February 28, 2023.

 

Anyone with information about possible child victims of sexual abuse may call the NYPD’s Bronx Child Abuse Squad at (929) 265-3638. To Report Abuse or Neglect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anonymously, call the New York State Central Registry Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-342-3720. Mandated Reporters: 1- 800-635-1522. Deaf/Hard of Hearing: 1-800-638-5163. If you believe that a child is in immediate danger, call 911.