Daycare owners guilty in facility where 2-year-old died

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Eva Ravikovich

A Newmarket court has found three people who ran the daycare where two-year-old Eva Ravikovich died to be guilty of operating an illegal child-care centre. Ruslan Panfilova, 47, his wife Olena Panfilova, 50, and her daughter Karyna Rabadanova, 26, were found guilty under the province’s Day Nurseries Act by a justice of the peace in a Newmarket court. The 2013 death occurred at the daycare on Yellowood Circle. There were 27 children at the daycare the day the child  died. Police found rotten food in the refrigerator, a garbage bag of dirty diapers and 14 dogs in the home. Provincial law limits unlicensed child-care facilities to five children under the age of 10.