Daycare shut down after infants found crying in storage closet

Well it IS for storage.

A Tennessee father is defending a daycare operator accused of hiding children in a closet during a surprise inspection.

"Quick, get in the closet before I get in trouble for treating you children inappropiately."

Joel Coe said he has been taking his 3-year-old son, Brodie, to Paulette's Group Day Care home since he was a baby.

And aside from an insane fear of closets, nothing out of the ordinary has ever happened.

He said the owner, Paulette Colter, was always good to his son and that she was devastated and misses the children.

She's been putting cats and dogs in the closet but it just isn't the same.

"Brodie is just crazy over her. If she was abusing a child, why would my son be crazy over her? He wouldn't want to come here," he said.

I don't know, cause he's three and doesn't realize he's being mistreated? Even if this woman has never, ever mistreated one of the children in her care, why did she put them in the closet? Seriously I can't think of one good reason to put a child in a closet. Wait, let me rephrase. I can't think of one legal or morally correct reason to put a child in a closet