BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—The Indiana State Police (ISP) and the Indiana Department of Child Services (ICS) concluded a six-month investigation earlier this week with the arrest of a Brown County woman. State police public information officer Sgt. Curt Durnil says that authorities served a warrant on Wednesday from the Monroe County Circuit Court for the arrest of Anna Prewitt-Byers, 20, of Nashville.
ISP and ICS were both contacted on April 18 by Indiana University Health Bloomington regarding a seven-month-old baby that a mother had brought to the facility. The infant girl had suffered multiple injuries including massive hemorrhaging, abrasions, diffuse cerebral edema causing herniation, severe hemorrhages in the retina, perioptic nerve soft tissue hemorrhage, left chin contusions, cerebellar hemorrhages, base-of-the-brain hemorrhaging and blunt trauma injury to her chest. The young child died the next day.
Law enforcement says the investigation led to probable cause that the mother, Prewitt-Byers, was responsible for the injuries that led to her daughter’s death. Prewitt-Byers was taken into custody and transported to the Monroe County Jail. She is charged with aggravated battery, and battery resulting in the death of a person less than 14 years old.