A child care center licensed under Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration raised eyebrows by having a publicly listed phone number leading to Walz’s office.
Sweet Angel Child Care in Minneapolis went viral Monday after X users pointed out that its phone number on Google Maps is the same as Walz’s office — and after YouTube creator Nick Shirley featured the building in a Friday video investigating whether several state-licensed businesses in Minnesota are legitimate.
Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) records also show the day care kept its license despite numerous violations of state child care standards, raising questions about oversight under Walz’s welfare bureaucracy. Minnesota continues to draw national media attention in recent months over federal investigations alleging that fraudulent businesses, mostly run by the state’s Somali population, stole more than $1 billion in housing assistance and other programs. Sweet Angel Child Care has not been implicated in any cases.
On Sweet Angel Child Care’s licensing webpage, the Minnesota DHS directs viewers to call a number that leads to the voicemail box of a different number with a Nebraska area code. The Daily Caller News Foundation left a voicemail and did not receive a response.
Beyond the Minnesota DHS page, there is hardly any trace of Sweet Angel Day Care’s existence. Shirley, the YouTuber, was greeted with skepticism when he arrived at the building to question employees, video footage shows.
“I want to put my son, Joey, in day care,” Shirley said after knocking on the door.
“Why?” a voice on the other side said. No employee would answer Shirley’s questions or let him in.
The Minnesota DHS’ Office of the Inspector General reprimanded the day care between May 2022 and December 2025 for misconduct that included children not receiving proper hygiene or supervision, access to “hazardous objects”, failing to require immunization documentation, ill-kept areas of the facility that did not meet safety requirements and more. The state continued licensing Sweet Angel Child Care once it submitted “correction” plans for the violations, though it has not yet submitted the required documents since the latest visit from the inspector general’s office, records show.
A December 2024 letter from the Minnesota DHS to Sweet Angel Child Care lists the facility’s representative as Naley Abdulle, who could not be reached by the DCNF. The inspector general’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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