The Stony Day Care Centre will close July 24 after Alberta investigators found children there were being humiliated and, in one case, forced to eat vomit. (CBC)Parents in Stony Plain, Alta., squared off with representatives from Alberta Child and Youth Services on Thursday night over the impending closure of their children's daycare.

The Stony Day Care Centre in the town 30 kilometres west of Edmonton will close July 24 after provincial investigators found children were being inappropriately disciplined by biting, shaming and hitting.

Children were "humiliated as a result of toileting accidents," force fed and, in one case, a child vomited and the vomit was mixed into food that the child was then forced to eat, says the notice cancelling the daycare's licence.

The meeting was supposed to be a chance for parents and the province to discuss the closure, but instead, it quickly became an overwhelming show of support for the daycare.

For nearly two hours, almost 60 people crammed into a small, hot room demanding answers.

No one spoke up to criticize the daycare.

Parents instead said the investigation wasn't thorough enough. They said they weren't consulted or interviewed about the allegations against the daycare and that they don't think it should be closed.

Parent Francis Moren told the meeting his oldest daughter loved the daycare so much that he registered his younger daughter, too.

"So, if I was so concerned about my child and her care, why would I bring a second child in there?" he said.

Staff at the daycare have said the allegations that led the province to pull its licence were the result of complaints from disgruntled former staff and are not true.

Alberta Child and Youth Services spokesman Trevor Coulombe called it ''a difficult meeting."

But he said the investigators are certain everything in their report is accurate. Investigators who visited the daycare on June 21, 22 and 28 confirmed the allegations of non-compliance with provincial child-care legislation.

"They have talked to a number of staff members — more than three or four — and the allegations based on what they learned from those staff members and some parents was confirmed," Coulombe said.

The daycare owner has filed a notice of appeal.

The RCMP is investigating some of the allegations.

'Right decision': youth minister

Yvonne Fritz, Alberta's minister of children and youth services, told CBC News Friday that the province was right to close the daycare.

"I am very confident that [Child and Youth Services] staff ... with their quick action that they had ... have made the right decision, and the right decision was to close the daycare," Fritz told CBC News.