Probable cause found in Lexington daycare workers accused of injuring toddlers
Probable cause was found by a district court judge in all four daycare workers facing charges in connection to the alleged physical harm of toddlers.
and last updated 2021-02-25 09:59:28-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â Probable cause was found by a district court judge in all four daycare workers facing charges in connection to the alleged physical harm of toddlers.
The cases of Jazzmine Webb, Samantha Ayers, Maurisa Sweat, and Terri Smallwood are all being sent to a grand jury.
It all started after one family noticed bruising on their child. Since then, the Lexington Police Department arrested Ayers, Sweat, and Webb and charged them with Criminal Abuse in the 1st degree.
Christopher D. Haynes
A Somerset man who was accused along with his wife of abusing their grandson has been sentenced after pleading guilty to an amended charge.
Christopher David Haynes was sentenced February 5 in Pulaski Circuit Court to four years in prison for second-degree Criminal Abuse.
Haynes and his wife 55-year-old Lana Jane Haynes were jointly indicted in December 2019 on one count of first-degree Criminal Abuse of a Child 12 or Under.
Both initially entered not guilty pleas to the charge, which stemmed from an investigation by the Somerset Police Department. SPD Captain Mike Correll reported at the time that the foster parents of a 10-month-old boy contacted police July 31, 2019, after the child s grandparents had returned him from a visitation. During the exchange, the Hayneses told the foster parents that the child may have bruises because another child hit the baby with a toy.
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Gideon C. Wesley
A local man accused of abusing a child with autism was granted a pretrial diversion as part of a plea agreement reached Thursday in Pulaski Circuit Court.
Gideon Clay Wesley, 28, of Somerset, had originally been indicted last February on one count of first-degree Criminal Abuse (Child 12 or Under).
The charge stemmed from an investigation begun in November 2019 by Somerset Police after they were dispatched to Memorial School in reference to a student who had arrived with bruises.
According to his arrest citation, Wesley told authorities that the child had knocked a gun rack off the wall while they were at a residence. When the child didn t heed Wesley s request for him to get up, according to the citation, Wesley grabbed him by the neck of his shirt and twisted the shirt, jerked him up and drug him approximately 20 feet down the hallway to place him in time out. At another point, Wesley grabbed the child s arm and tried to pick him up.