Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama February 20, 1998, 2961009 (Smallwood v. STATE DEPT. OF HUMAN RES.)

Mary Smallwood operated a daycare center in Lanett for 27 years. On March 5, 1996, the Department of Human Resources ("DHR") suspended her license to operate a group daycare home, pending an investigation of reports that she had sexually abused three children, had emotionally abused one child, and had violated the DHR minimum standards with respect to corporal punishment and parental