Infant Suffers Critical Injuries At Unlicensed Smithfield Daycare, Police Say
SMITHFIELD, N.C. — Smithfield police are urging anyone who may have entrusted a child to an unlicensed daycare operating from a Smithfield home to come forward after an infant allegedly suffered life-threatening injuries while in the caregiver’s custody.
Investigators believe Sunrise to Sunset Home Child Care, operated from a residence at 205 Cloverdale Drive, had been caring for children for more than a year and typically had four to six children in its care at any given time.
The investigation began Monday after Johnston County EMS responded to the Cloverdale Drive home for an injured infant and transported the child to WakeMed in Raleigh. Hospital staff later notified the Smithfield Police Department after the infant arrived for treatment.
Detectives launched an investigation and, based on evidence gathered and information developed during the case, obtained a search warrant for the residence Tuesday.
Following the investigation, Brooke Ashley Reiner, 26, of 205 Cloverdale Drive, was arrested and charged with two counts of intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury and one count of providing child care while unlicensed resulting in serious injury to a child.
A Johnston County magistrate ordered Reiner held under a $5 million secured bond.
The infant remains hospitalized in serious condition.
According to the arrest warrant, police investigators allege the infant suffered extensive injuries, including external bruising, a brain bleed with a midline shift, and hemispheric disconnection — a separation of the brain’s hemispheres. The warrant alleges Reiner caused the injuries by repeatedly striking the 8-month-old child in the face, head and abdomen with her hand, and by throwing the child onto a changing table and slamming the child’s head against the table. The warrant said the injuries required emergency brain surgery.
Because investigators believe the unlicensed daycare had been operating for more than a year and cared for several children on a regular basis, detectives are attempting to identify other families who may have used the daycare.
Anyone with information about the investigation or the operation of Sunrise to Sunset Home Child Care is asked to contact Detective Miller at the Smithfield Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 919-934-2121.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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There is always someone who find a way to be the face of evil. Put this creature away for a long long time
sounds more attempted murder
This is why I will never leave my child with a daycare. Or anyone for that matter. I hope the other inmates give her what she deserves, hopefully she don’t make it out!
I just broke down crying again when I read about the separation of the brain’s hemisphere and that the baby had to undergo emergency brain surgery. I told my 22 year old grandson that I was tempted to go get myself locked up for something so I could get into that jail and make sure that evil b**ch suffers the most excruciating pain that she can endure. Just like the pain that horrible b**ch put that precious baby through. But, can’t do it, I’m a law abiding citizen. I’m just so glad that Wake County officials called Johnston County sheriff’s office to tell them to get a search warrant for her residence and to take her into custody. She’s being held under a $5 million bond, so I don’t worry about her going anywhere. Hopefully the inmates will *** ** *** and see that she realizes the error of her ways. It’s so disgusting what she did to the child. I wish someone would *** that b**ch out of her *****.
This is a very sick evil person and I hope they throw the book at her
She is pure evil! Anybody who can hurt an innocent child has got the devil in them. Put that animal away and throw away the key.there is nothing an eight month old baby could possibly do to deserve a spanking much less a beating so severe to cause brain bleed and these other injuries. It would not be good if this were. My baby !!! She is sick!!!
So doing this outside the womb is bad but slicing an infant apart and sucking it out of the womb is ok, got it.
You really do need to reconsider getting into this conversation. Now is not the time to be pushing your political views about abortion into the conversation we’re having about the evil friggin b**ch harming an innocent 8 month old child
You don’t get it. Abortion is evil. This is not about political stances. This is about a defenseless human child who was beaten half to death if not to death. If you are outraged by this, you should be outraged at abortion.
THANK YOU 🙌
Save it for another time. I personally know this family and we are all heartbroken.
Which one? The one who had the child or the one who raised the murderer?
The baby and his family
The baby and his family.
Why in the world is she not charged with attempted murder??!!
She wouldn’t be breathing another day!
The same reason why abortion doctors aren’t charged with murder.
Because one is a living breathing child and one is a clump of cells? ABORTION IS NOT MURDER ITS HEALTHCARE
With a heartbeat? Your argument is the exact same argument slave holders felt about Africans AND the exact same belief Hitler had about Jewish people to justify the holocaust . Your in….questionable company.
This is beyond evil, charge her with attempted murder. Karma will be her cellmate. Hopefully she doesn’t survive prison.
She should never walk free again. Life without parole at Central prison in Raleigh is where she belongs
That’s a men’s prison however, I agree she should be given life in prison.
Stay home with your children. There is no sense in paying strangers to care for your kids. They should be raised by people that love them, not hired help. Then things like this will be a thing of the past, and completely avoided.
A number of years ago, when we were young parents, we made the decision that my wife to stay home with our children. For our family, it was truly a blessing.
I can say that being the sole provider will humble a person. You don’t walk away from a job because your pride gets hurt, and you’ll work hours that many others might not. Looking back, I would do it all over again to keep my children out of daycare.
We took fewer vacations, drove older cars, and lived in a smaller home on one income. But the reward, as they say, was priceless.
I know this isn’t possible for everyone—especially single moms (God bless you) and others facing different circumstances. But if you can make it work, buy a little less and hug your kids every day. Those moments are worth more than anything money can buy.
I see a couple of people on here saying stay home with your kids that’s not always a option some people have to work to pay the the bills not everybody is getting a government check or well off
Those of us who are getting a government check, as you put it, are the ones who paid into our social security so we would have some type of income later in life in which to live on. Problem is, most of us don’t make enough to survive on SSDI. I am totally disabled and in a wheelchair so I am unable to work to supplement my income. When I was younger and married to my first husband, I was able to stay home and take care of my own babies. Like the man commented earlier about he and his wife being a one income family, and her staying home and caring for their own children, I thoroughly enjoyed being with my babies during all of their firsts.
It’s a choice. Make it. If they can, you can. The appeals to perpetual poverty are not constructive, nor accurate. It will require proper budgeting, being very choosey with who you procreate with, and living well within your means.
That would be WAY too responsible for most modern couples who seemingly don’t mature until their late 30’s
The same should be done to her-only more thoroughly.