California parents sue Bay Club over toddler thrown injury

A California family has filed a lawsuit against The Bay Club, alleging that an employee at its El Segundo Clubhouse childcare center threw their toddler into the air and dropped him, causing a traumatic brain injury, and that the facility then misrepresented the severity of the incident. The complaint, filed on July 2 by Matthew and Elena Kittle on behalf of their son, identified as C.K., stems from an event on March 17, 2025.

According to the lawsuit, surveillance footage shows a female employee picking up the 23-month-old boy by his hands, swinging him between her legs, and then propelling him over her head. The complaint alleges the worker released the child's hands while he was approximately six feet in the air, failed to catch him, and then fell backward, landing on top of him after he struck a hardwood floor. The incident reportedly occurred around 9:20 a.m., shortly after the boy's father dropped him off for a scheduled three-hour stay before going to a separate Bay Club facility about a mile away.

The lawsuit details a series of phone calls between the club and the parents that morning. Staff first called the father around 9:30 a.m., stating the child had fallen but had...