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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAccording to the affidavit, on Monday, December 9th, deputies\nand PCFR personnel responded to Reese\u2019s home on North Acorn Drive to an\nunresponsive infant call. Reese told the first responders that he was home\nalone with 3-month-old twin babies and two other children, and that he had\ndropped one of the babies, a female. She was airlifted to Tampa General\nHospital with multiple rib fractures, a skull fracture, and severe bleeding on\nthe brain. She succumbed to her injuries on December 12, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During interviews and a reenactment, Reese told detectives\nthat he was home alone with four children (the twin babies, and two other\nchildren ages 4 and 6), trying to eat after having fed all four of them. He\ntold detectives that the two children and one of the babies were on a couch,\nwhile he held the other baby. He said that the two children caused the baby to\nbegin to fall from the couch, and while he was trying to prevent that baby from\nfalling, he dropped the one who was in his arms, and she fell head first onto the\nground. He added that he may have fallen on top of her after she hit the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hillsborough Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on\nthe baby, during which he located numerous bruises to the front, back, and both\nsides of the baby\u2019s head, on her back, and on her neck; two skull fractures;\nhemorrhaging of the optic nerves; and hemorrhaging down the spinal column,\nindicative of severe trauma. Three of the baby\u2019s ribs were fractured and mostly\nre-healed, indicating they happened previously and not during the December 9th event.\nThe cause of death was ruled cranial cerebral and cervical trauma, and the\nmanner of death was ruled homicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Medical Examiner and detectives determined that Reese\u2019s\nstatements on how the baby was injured were not consistent with her traumatic\nand fatal injuries, and that her injuries noted during her autopsy could not\nhave occurred from a fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reese was Baker Acted by PCSO on December 13, 2019, in\nrelation to this event, and has been hospitalized since that time with self-inflicted\ninjuries. Detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest, and upon his release\nfrom the hospital, he was taken into custody without incident and booked into\nthe Polk County Jail. He will have a first appearance hearing at 1:00 p.m. this\nafternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPlease, please – if you\u2019re not capable of taking care of\nchildren and babies, reach out for help before something horrific like this\nhappens. Now a family is suffering the loss of a newborn baby girl because Kyle\nReese was left in charge of four small children, and he did the unthinkable. He\nbelongs behind bars.\u201d \u2013 Grady Judd, Sheriff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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