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Daycare owner arrested after kids found behind false

A daycare owner has been arrested after she allegedly hid 26 children behind a false wall in her Colorado Springs daycare.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado woman accused of hiding 26 children behind a false wall at her daycare center has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse. 

Court documents say 58-year-old Carla Faith was licensed to care for six children at her Colorado Springs site. 

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But police say 'that when they visited the property in November, they discovered 26 toddlers in a basement with an entrance concealed by a false wall. 

Faith was arrested Monday on suspicion of two counts of reckless child abuse without injury and a single count of trying to influence a public servant. She has posted bond. 

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