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Kinder Kids Christian Preschool

5353 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019 · Los Angeles County
Closed Child care center (preschool)
This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of Sep 24, 2025. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Kinder Kids Christian Preschool was a licensed child care center in Los Angeles, CA, licensed for up to 67 children. Its license closed around September 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once, investigated 4 complaints (3 substantiated) and issued 12 citations, 8 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

8 Type A citations
4 Type B citations
1 Inspections
3 of 4 Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 INSPECTIONS (top) · REPORTS & INVESTIGATIONS (bottom) Sep 27, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citation Aug 28, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citation Jul 9, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citation Jul 1, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citation Jun 20, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation found Jun 20, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation found May 17, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citation Apr 30, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation found Apr 30, 2024 · Report/investigation · no citation Apr 12, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation found Mar 26, 2024 · Report/investigation · citation found Mar 26, 2024 · Inspection · citation found
Citation issued No citation Top row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Caregiver conduct 4
Training & qualifications 3
Other standards 2
Background checks 1
Health & medication 1
Building & playground safety 1

Citations, newest first

Type A Jun 20, 2024 Case management visit (incident) Caregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(3)
a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse ... This requirement is not met by evidence by 1 Teachers Aide was terminated on June 14, 2024 by Director. Based on interview, the licensee did not ensure C3 did not get his hair pilled by a teaches aide, which poses a potenial health, safety, or personal rights risk to persons in care. 8
Plan of correction due Jun 20, 2024
Type B Jun 20, 2024 Case management visit (deficiencies) Background checks
Criminal record clearance §101170(e)(2)
All individuals subject to a criminal record review shall, prior to working, a licensed facility:Request a transfer of a criminal record clearance as specified ... This requirement is not met by evidence by 1 Director filled out lic 9281 to associate the staff today to become into compliance. Based on record review, the licensee did not ensure Kyra Bacon (date of hire 12/4/23) was not associated to the facility which poses a potenial health, safety, or personal rights risk to persons in care. A civil penalty of $500 has been assessed. 8
Plan of correction due Jun 20, 2024
Type A Apr 30, 2024 Complaint investigation Caregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(3)
interviews conducted, video footage, and other pertinent information provided that S1 inappropriately spoke to C1 during an incident that occurred on 03/14/2024. This poses an immediate health, safety, and personal rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 30, 2024
Type B Apr 12, 2024 Case management visit (annual continuation) Training & qualifications
Director qualifications and duties §101215.1(h)(B)
Licensee Representative/Director is missing 3 Units Child Family and Community course. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 26, 2024
Type B Apr 12, 2024 Case management visit (annual continuation) Health & medication
Staff immunizations §1596.7995
During today’s visit LPA reviewed staff files and observed that Licensee Representative/Director is missing proof of measles and Staff 1 is missing proof of influenza, pertussis and measles. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 26, 2024
Type B Apr 12, 2024 Case management visit (annual continuation) Training & qualifications
Staff health screening and personnel requirements §101216(g)(1)
During today’s visit LPA reviewed staff files and observed missing TB & Health Screening for Staff 1.
Plan of correction due Apr 26, 2024
Type A Mar 26, 2024 Complaint investigation Other standards
Conduct Inimical §1596.8897(a)(2)
Based on Interviews with S1-S3, Witnesses, and S1’s admission on 03/20/2024, this poses an immediate health, safety, and personal rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 1, 2024
Type A Mar 26, 2024 Complaint investigation Caregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(3)
Licensee allowing corporal punishment, and physical abuse based on interviews with S1-S3, Witnesses, and S1’s admission that on 03/14/2024, S1 physically restrained, shook, & lifted Child#1 upside down, as a means of punishment. This poses an immediate health, safety, and personal rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 1, 2024
Type A Mar 26, 2024 Complaint investigation Caregiver conduct
Personal rights §101223(a)(3)
Based on interviews conducted and admission made indicating that Child #2, Child #3, Child #4, Child #5 and Child #6 were made to stand in a bent down position touching their toes to correct their behaviors while S1 was restraining Child#1 which poses an immediate health, safety, and personal rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 1, 2024
Type A Mar 26, 2024 Complaint investigation Other standards
Conduct Inimical §1596.8897(a)(2)
Licensee failed to safeguard C1’s personal rights by allowing & encouraging S3 to spank C1 in the facility. Interview of S3 revealed that they are an employee of the facility and a relative of C1 and having been misled by S1 about C1’s misbehavior, they physically punished C1. This poses an immediate health, safety, and personal rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 1, 2024
Type A Mar 26, 2024 Complaint investigation Training & qualifications
Staff health screening and personnel requirements §101216(j)
Licensee allowing physical abuse of 6 children, based on interviews conducted with S1, S2 & S3 who have failed to safeguard C1 from corporal punishment when S3 physically punished C1 as a form of discipline, and S1 restrained C1, which poses an immediate health, safety, and personal rights risk to children in care.
Plan of correction due Apr 1, 2024
Type A Mar 26, 2024 Inspection Building & playground safety
Buildings and grounds §101238(g)
At the time of this visit, Licensee removed the scissors making them inaccessible to children. The Licensee locked the shed/storage unit in the play yard, making the hazardous items inaccessible to children. The Licensee removed the knives from the kitchen cabinet and the cleaning supplies from During a walk through of the physical plant, LPAs observed adult scissors in each classroom, accessible to children. At 9:08AM, LPAs observed a shed/storage unit in the outside play yard containing hazardous cleaning compounds (such as Comet, Lysol, Bleach, Rubbing Alcohol and Floor Polish) unlocked and accessible to children. At 9:23AM, LPAs observed knives in the kitchen cabinet and cleaning supplies underneath the kitchen sink left unlocked and accessible to children. This poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. 8 underneath the kitchen sink, making them inaccessible to children. Deficiency was cleared at the time of visit.
Plan of correction due Mar 26, 2024

Complaint investigations

Not substantiated Jul 9, 2024 Complaint investigation received May 13, 2024
The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.
Substantiated Jul 1, 2024 Complaint investigation received Jun 25, 2024
Substantiated allegation:
Staff pulled daycare child(ren) hair.
Substantiated Apr 30, 2024 Complaint investigation received Mar 18, 2024
Substantiated allegation:
Licensee spoke to day care child in an inappropriate manner.
1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.
Substantiated Mar 26, 2024 Complaint investigation received Mar 18, 2024
Substantiated allegation:
Staff#1 handled day care child in a physically inappropriate manner.
5 citations issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.

About this center

Licensed capacity 67 children
License type Child care center (preschool)
License status Closed
Licensed since Oct 14, 2009
Closed Sep 24, 2025
Licensee Moore, Michelle & Kirkland, Artea
Last administrator Brenda Smith
State facility # 197416529

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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.

To read the full state reports, search facility number 197416529 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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