Marysville mother says good Samaritan saved son after he walked away from daycare

Brittaney Landry says her 2.5-year-old son, Eoin, lived up to his nickname last week.

“His nickname is ‘Little Houdini,” said Landry, holding her son. “Like that’s what we’ve called him since he was like 9-months old.”

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He slipped through a child’s door at the Kids-N-Us Daycare in Marysville before two workers could stop him.

“He will get out of anything you try to keep him in,” his mother said.

But she says the daycare didn’t come completely clean about what happened until she read on Facebook that a good Samaritan stopped her son from walking onto busy State Avenue as it becomes Smokey Point Boulevard.

“He was like looking over the curb,” Landry says she read. “And she passed by him and turned her car around and came back and pulled into the turn lane, got out of the car, ran across two lanes of traffic and up onto the sidewalk and picked my son up. And (she) was like looking around, looking for somebody, not knowing why this 2-year-old was on the side of the road at eight o’clock at night in the dark.”

KIRO 7 got a copy of the letter the daycare sent, telling parents and guardians that one worker was terminated; those who remain got additional training; and that their children’s safety is the daycare’s “highest priority.”

But Landry says she credits the good Samaritan, not the daycare workers, with saving her son’s life.

“I honestly, truly feel in my heart that if she had not stopped her car and picked my son up,” said Landry, “that he would have gotten hit by a car.”

State documents show the daycare has a pretty clean record. Landry insists she doesn’t hate Kids-N-Us, but she has pulled her son and daughter out of the daycare.

The owner said by telephone Saturday night that she will have a statement Monday morning.