Babysitter Abducted Baby by Using Fake Facebook Profile, Court Records Show
On 2/9/21 at 5:32 AM EST
A woman police believe posed as a babysitter in a bid to abduct a 3-month-old baby boy from a Virginia home has confessed to orchestrating the crime through a fake Facebook profile, according to court records.
Tykirah Lashae Reid, 20, is accused of abducting Jiraiya Cherry from his Newport News family home on the morning of February 4. Family members reported him missing around 10:20 a.m.
The infant s uncle was at the family home in the 13000 block of Preakness Drive when the boy was abducted. He told police he was babysitting the infant and his 4-year-old niece when a woman hired by the baby s parents came to the house to assist him.
A 20-year-old babysitter is in jail Friday on charges of abducting a 3-month-old Virginia boy on her first day caring for him, WAVY reports. Little Jiraiya Cherry’s family found Tykirah Reid via an online babysitting group and invited her for a tryout on Thursday at their Newport News apartment. Reid was communicating with the baby’s […]