State welfare officials Wednesday suspended the license of a Dundalk day care center ? three days after receiving an anonymous complaint that a child was taped to a cot and placed in a basement covered in rat feces and poisoning.

The state Department of Education?s Office of Child Care issued an emergency suspension of the Jack and Jill Child Care Center on the 400 block of Westfield Road after receiving an anonymous complaint and conducting inspections Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, said Rolf Grafwallner, an assistant state superintendent.