{"id":192411,"date":"2026-09-02T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/192411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T07:30:28","slug":"ottawa-child-care-worker-charged-with-battery-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/192411\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa child care worker charged with battery \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/ottawa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/ottawa\/\">Ottawa<\/a> woman was charged Monday with a pair of felonies stemming from a report that two children were abused at an Ottawa childcare facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Anna M. Cervantes, 66, was picked up on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/la-salle-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/la-salle-county\/\">La Salle County<\/a> warrant charging her with two counts of aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony carrying a possible prison sentence of two to five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Cervantes was released Tuesday from La Salle County Jail with conditions including GPS monitoring. She will next appear, with the public defender, for arraignment Oct. 2 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/la-salle-county-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/la-salle-county-court\/\">La Salle County Circuit Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The La Salle County Public Defender\u2019s Office declined comment on Cervantes\u2019 charges at this stage of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">In a Tuesday news release, Ottawa police said they were alerted, on Aug. 15, a report of abuse of two children provided by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The abuse had allegedly occurred at \u201ca local childcare facility,\u201d Ottawa police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">\u201cDuring the ensuing investigation, detectives obtained surveillance footage of the alleged incident and conducted interviews with involved parties,\u201d police said. \u201cAt the conclusion of the investigation, the case report was forwarded to the La Salle County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office for review. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ottawa woman was charged Monday with a pair of felonies stemming from a report that two children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6154,6151,6152,7514,61],"class_list":["post-192411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-illinois-valley-front-headlines","tag-la-salle-county","tag-la-salle-county-court","tag-newstribune","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}