The state has shut down a Lehigh Township day care center where 3-month-old McKenna R. Felmly died on April 1.

McKenna was found dead after being put on her tummy in a crib “outside of the measured child care space” and left alone for 25 minutes, according to a report from the state Department of Human Services.It was McKenna’s first day at the center.Citing “gross incompetence, negligence and misconduct,” DHS on April 5 ordered Sharon’s Day Care Center closed.The center is operated by Sharon Lynn Ballek, who has until May 5 to appeal the order, according to a notice sent to her by the state Office of Child Development and Learning.Ballek did not immediately return a telephone call early Thursday.According to a report on DHS’s investigation, it found seven violations.• The center failed to provide enough staff for the number of children, had McKenna in an area not designated for child care.On the day McKenna died, one person was caring for seven children, two of whom were 2 years old. State law requires two staff members for a group that size, based on the ages of the youngest children.• McKenna was placed in an area outside the designated child care space.• McKenna was left unsupervised for several periods that day, sometimes for up to a half-hour.• The staff member assigned to McKenna left her to go out of the room.• McKenna was placed on her stomach to sleep.• Ballek failed to establish and maintain an individual record for McKenna.• Ballek allowed McKenna to attend the center without the necessary documents required to establish her record.“The violations, events and circumstances described above constitute evidence of gross incompetence, negligence, and misconduct in operating a facility likely to constitute an immediate and serious danger to the life or health of children in care,” the DHS report states.According to the report, on April 1, a Sharon’s Day Care worker put McKenna, the daughter of Bryan S. Felmly and Adrienne L. Kromer of Slatington, down for a nap, on her tummy, in a crib that was “outside of the measured child care space” at the center, then left the room to wake other children.Twenty-five minutes later, she returned to find McKenna’s lips blue and the infant unresponsive, according to the report.The worker alerted another staff member, who called 911 as the first worker started CPR on McKenna.The infant was rushed to Palmerton Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.An autopsy performed on April 2 did not immediately reveal a cause of death; there was no evidence of trauma on McKenna’s body, Carbon County coroner Robert W. Miller Jr. has said.“We won’t have the results for 14 weeks,” he said early Thursday.Tests being done include X-rays and toxicology screens, he said.