NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – Newly-released body camera video shows North Miami police officers arrest Reyanna Icilma Thomas, the 22-year-old mother accused of hitting her baby in a video sent to the child’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 2-month old baby girl while “yelling and cursing” at her.
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.
Police said the newly-obtained video shows officers go to Thomas’ apartment after seeing the videos, then, after failing to get her to answer the door, getting a handyman to let them in in order to save the baby.
In the video, Thomas said she was just “mad upset” and questioned why she was being arrested.
Thomas continued to blame the baby’s father for calling police. But police said the baby was in danger and officers went above and beyond to save her.
As of Wednesday, Thomas was held without bond on a child abuse charge in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.