Child care provider, charged with 5-month-old’s death, arrested again in 2-month-old’s injury case

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — A Jeffersonville child care provider accused of breaking the leg of a 2-month-old in her care will face more criminal charges next week in a southern Indiana court.

In June, she was charged after a 5-month-old boy in her care died after a head injury in 2022.

Brittany Baylor, 35, has been preliminarily charged with battery with serious bodily injury to a person younger than 14, and neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury of the 2-month-old, according to Indiana State Police and online court records.

Indiana Department of Child Services in February notified Indiana State Police after learning that Norton Children’s Hospital doctors in Louisville, Kentucky, determined the 2-month-old’s leg was broken.

State police say a family member had picked up the baby from Baylor’s home child care operation. The family member, once returned home, began to change the child’s diaper and saw the baby’s leg was very sensitive, and took the 2-month-old to the hospital.

A Norton’s specialist determined “the injury was diagnostic of inflicted child physical abuse,” said a news release from Indiana State Po...