Wiese, 44, is accused of abusing at least eight children at Joyous Montessori in McKinney. She remains in the Collin County Jail, with bail set at $550,000.

She was never charged in connection with the stolen drugs, and the day care center said she passed her pre-employment background checks.

Those checks would have omitted any mention of her troubled past as a nurse because the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which is responsible for the background checks, doesn’t include professional license revocations in its findings, the agency says.

Kent W. Starr, Wiese's attorney, did not return multiple calls for comment.

Police say Wiese was arrested Dec. 3 after a 2-month-old suffered broken bones while in her care at Joyous Montessori.

She was fired from the day care after her arrest, and additional victims were revealed when police asked for concerned parents to come forward. Some of the abuse was documented on surveillance video that showed Wiese slamming children on changing tables, inflicting broken bones and bruises on some of them, police documents reveal.

After her arrest, the day care center released a written statement that indicated no red flags were raised before Wiese was hired.

“Unfortunately Jessica Joy Wiese passed all background checks and has no prior history which would lead us to believe she could be capable of something like this,” the statement said.

An employee at Joyous Montessori, who didn't provide a name, said that Wiese's background check didn't turn up problems related to her time as a nurse and that she wouldn't have been hired if she hadn't passed the background check.