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Shelby County Reporter
By MOLLY DAVIDSON / Staff Writer
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a local daycare employee on four counts of felony child abuse after concerned coworkers reported her actions to the authorities.
Brittney Nicole Wayland, 20, of Hoover, was arrested on Nov. 2 after she allegedly abused four children at a Shelby County church-run daycare facility located in the 4700 block of Valleydale Road.
Coworkers at the daycare facility reported the alleged abuse to the SCSO on May 29.
According to court documents, the alleged incidents of abuse occurred between June 2014 and June 2015.
After an investigation and interviews with the witnesses and four child victims, Wayland was charged with three counts of misdemeanor harassment and one count of misdemeanor assault SCSO deputy Debbie Sumrall said.
The charges were elevated to felonies after the case was brought in front of a grand jury on Oct. 9. The grand jury indicted Wayland on four counts of felony child abuse.
“This case was forwarded to the grand jury, and because of the number of victims, they decided to charge Brittney with four counts of willful abuse of a child,” Sumrall said.
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