Created: 6/25/2009 5:37:33 PM 
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The woman arrested in connection with the death of a two-year-old little boy is out of jail.
The child, Bernard Davis, was found dead inside a car outside a Westside home Wednesday afternoon. Police say he was left in the car for hours before he was found.
Shantel Wilcher, 38, was watching the child. Wilcher was charged with giving false information to police in the case. Police say she was trying to hide the fact she was operating an unlicensed daycare.
"I've got so many what-ifs. I always felt like there were so many kids running wild without supervision," says Meagan Collins, Wilcher's next door neighbor.
"For an accident like this, I want to stay home now. I don't trust anyone with my kid." Collins says she saw seven to ten children a day at Wilcher's Westside home.
First Coast News has learned, Wilcher did have a license for her home daycare a couple of years ago and had some problems.
In November, 2006, there was a license violation. DCF found Wilcher had left children in the care of a 15-year-old.
In March, 2007, Wilcher was fined for improper supervision. In May, 2007, she was fined for personnel not having the proper training.
After $500 in fines, the state re-inspected and noted the problems were corrected. Wilcher did not lose her license. But in May, 2008, Wilcher gave her license back to DCF.
In January, 2009, DCF says Wilcher was the director at another daycare facility called Teeter Tykes. DCF spokesperson John Harrell says a parent spotted a worker with two children in a car that were not properly restrained. Harrell says the children were not supposed to be in the car.
First Coast News found that in the last year, Wilcher applied for two business licenses for her home. One was for "Kids Depot" the other is called "Future Leaders Childcare."
DCF says it knew nothing about those licenses. "No, that is news to us, what you found there. That's a major problem. You can't have these family home facilities operating without a license," says John Harrell.
DCF is investigating along with the JSO. As for Meagan Collins, she says she wishes she would have done something when she questioned the supervision at the home. "What if I just called police, DCF -- that baby could still be alive."
DCF says Wilcher applied for a new daycare license in March 2009 under the name of Kids Depot. DCF says it was going to decline the application because of her past, so Wilcher withdrew her application.
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