NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – A North Miami woman is facing a felony child abuse charge after police said she repeatedly hit her 2-month-old daughter and sent a recording of herself doing so to the baby’s father.
According to an arrest report from the North Miami Police Department, the man flagged down an officer at around 6:20 Saturday evening and showed him or her a video he received from his former girlfriend, Reyanna Icilma Thomas, hitting the infant while “yelling and cursing” at her.
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Thomas, 22, then “forcefully pushed” the “frightened and afraid” baby girl while calling her a “dumb a-- b----,” police said.
Police said Thomas then texted the baby’s father a photo of their daughter lying on the bed with a blanket covering her nose and mouth, “which appeared to restrict (her) breathing.”
That was followed up, the report states, with a text message.
“I’m stuck with this thing until she dies,” police said Thomas texted. “It makes me so sick that she doesn’t have a different father and I can’t love her because she has a part of you. I’m gonna enjoy my 20s. Left ur sperm in the house with a cat.”
She also told him she’d punch her daughter “dead in the face,” according to police.
After attempts to get Thomas to answer her door, police, believing the child was in imminent danger, got a handyman to open the door to her apartment in the 12000 block of Northeast Fifth Avenue, the report states.
Police said the officer announced his or her presence and told Thomas to step outside. She did and was taken into custody.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews medically cleared the baby, who didn’t have any visible injuries, police said.
Authorities said Thomas made a confession, which was redacted from the report.
She was arrested on a charge of child abuse causing no great bodily harm. Thomas was no longer listed in Miami-Dade jail records as of Monday afternoon.