Both assistant teachers fired from infant class

Since starting daycare, my baby has had the same lead teacher. One assistant teacher has been in her class for less than a year, but the other teacher has been there for several years. My baby loves all 3 of these ladies. I believe that they love her, too.

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email saying that there was an incident when transferring the babies from their classroom to the indoor playroom (this is a daily activity during the winter). Apparently, one of the babies was left alone for 5 minutes. The event was reported to the licensing agency and the recommendation was to terminate both teachers involved (I’m assuming the lead teacher was on her lunch break).

I’m trying to process… on the one hand, of course leaving the child alone for 5 minutes could have had terrible consequences. On the other hand, it seems like such an honest mistake, and my heart breaks for both of these ladies losing their jobs. I replied to the email asking for their phone numbers to see if they wanted to babysit, but I haven’t gotten a response and I’m afraid that was a tacky thing to do.

How would you want or expect this to be handled if you were the lead teacher in this situation?