LATHROP – The California State Department of Social Services has revoked the home-based child care license of Kristy Sayles.The decision, handed down by Administrative Law Judge Marilyn A. Woollard of the Office of Administrative Hearings, has good and bad news for the former mayor.The bad news is that Sayles’ appeal in response to the state’s legal action late last year to close her business was denied resulting in the revocation of her child care license. The judge’s decision in a copy of the legal ruling provided to the Manteca Bulletin is dated June 15, 2011.According to the judge’s decision, “Sayles has violated the rules and regulations of the California Child Care Facilities Act. Specifically, she has engaged in conduct that is inimical to the health, morals, welfare, or safety of either an individual in or receiving services from the facility or the people of this state” by the physical abuse of a child, “by failing to protect” two children from abuse by her former husband, Tom, and by “violating the personal rights of children in (her) care by repeatedly exposing them to mental abuse and/or (intimidation), and by “violating safety regulations” as set forth in the factual findings and legal conclusions of the investigation.The state also denied a probationary license for Sayles because she “has engaged in a serious and chronic pattern of conduct” in violation of state law.According to the judge’s decision, Sayles “has exposed children in (her) care to intimidation and potentially placed those children at greater risk, based upon her knowledge of Mr. Sayles’s volatile verbal and physical conduct with her own children.