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<p>Coaxed by an adult off camera, small children gleefully use filthy language in a 22-second video shot at a Pennsylvania day care, posted on Facebook and viewed nearly 170,000 times since October.</p><p>Prosecutors on Thursday filed a corruption of minors charge against the video&#8217;s alleged creator, Rashanna Gyles, 24, of Allentown.</p><p>Gyles was a bus monitor at Creative Minds Daycare Academy in early October when prosecutors say she instructed a half-dozen children to direct obscenities toward another child. She made videos of the cursing kids and sent one to a friend, who called police and the day care, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin.</p><p>Gyles said Thursday she can&#8217;t explain why she did it.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking,&#8221; she told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview before her arraignment.</p><p>Gyles was fired from the Allentown day care when the Oct. 4 incident came to light. Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services revoked the day care&#8217;s operating license, citing the &#8220;harsh and demeaning language&#8221; in the video as well as several other unrelated violations.</p><p>Creative Minds said Thursday it will appeal the revocation. It can remain open while appealing the decision.</p><p>&#8220;People that know us, know that the people who work here are good people, and they understand that this was an isolated incident,&#8221; said Elizabeth Saleb, the day care&#8217;s president.</p><p>The facility, which opened in 2009, remains filled to its 36-child capacity and has a waiting list, she added.</p><p>The person who posted the video online wrote on Facebook that she did so &#8220;because I feel like you should be able to send your toddlers to daycare without having to worry about people doing this to them. &#8230; I am beyond disgusted.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By MICHAEL RUBINKAM</p><p>Associated Press</p></bylineMeta></div>

Pa. day care worker can’t explain why she encouraged kids to curse in video