18-02-2025
Woman receives sentence in local child endangering case
BROOKFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) – A woman from Masury accused of leaving children home alone after multiple complaints was sentenced last week in her child endangering case.
Brianna Daye, 29, pleaded guilty to four counts of misdemeanor child endangering on Thursday and was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence with credit for time served. She will spend two years on probation, according to court records. Four other counts against her were dismissed.
As part of her probation, she was ordered to have no contact with the juvenile victims of the case unless approved by Trumbull County Children Services, and she will have to submit to psychological examinations and drug and alcohol evaluations.
Daye was charged after Brookfield officers were sent to an apartment in the 8100 block of Addison Rd. on Halloween for a report of children screaming.
Officers arrived and didn't see a disturbance but reported that they had dealt with the residents of the home before on complaints of the children being left alone. Police were also given a recording in which children could be heard screaming, sounding like it was coming from the apartment.
Maintenance for the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority (TMHA) — which owns the building — entered the apartment, and seven children, ranging from ages 2 to 10, were found inside the apartment. The children said the oldest child was watching them.
Investigators from each agency noted in their reports that the home was in deplorable condition, with rotten food in the sink, raw meat on a table and feces smeared on a wall. Police added that they found an antihistamine pill on the floor of a bedroom and other such pills lying in the bathroom.
Daye returned while the officers were there and said she had a babysitter who must have left without telling her, but police said Daye would not provide any information on the person who was supposed to be watching them.
Police said two of the children in the home were Daye's children, and the other five belonged to a family member.
Another police report shows that charges were filed against the father of some of the children after officers were called to the same apartment in March for a report that a child without shoes was running through the parking lot of the apartment complex alone. Police said the father, Jerami Wells, told police that he left the 2-year-old and 5-year-old children home alone for 5 to 10 minutes while he walked to a drive-thru nearby.
Wells was sentenced to three years of probation in September after pleading guilty to a fourth-degree felony child-endangering.
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