Plymouth day care aide charged after 0.356 BAC on duty

Hennepin County prosecutors have charged 21-year-old day care aide Aniya Keosongseng after Plymouth police say she reported to work so drunk that a preliminary breath test put her blood alcohol content at 0.356 while she was caring for 12‑ to 16‑month‑old children. According to a criminal complaint, staff called 911 on Feb. 23 after Keosongseng was slurring, stumbling and "appeared impaired"; surveillance video allegedly shows her nodding off, struggling to button a child’s outfit, then falling backward into a wall with a child in her arms so the child’s head hit the wall before she lost her balance again and fell on top of the child. Officers say she admitted going home over lunch to drink, then resisted arrest by dropping to the floor, kicking and biting an officer in the leg before being taken to a hospital because of her level of intoxication. She faces gross‑misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and obstruction of legal process and is due in court April 16, while parents across the west metro are left to wonder how someone that impaired made it back into an infant room before anyone pulled her off duty. The only reason we know the details is because of the surveillance video and the complaint; neither the center nor state regulators are offering up much yet on how their screening and supervision supposedly kept kids safe that day.