NORTH CHARLESTON — The owner of Sweetgrass Christian Academy daycare has been arrested for allegedly failing to report child abuse perpetrated by an employee.
Robin Nicole Bryant, 45, of Goose Creek was arrested Sept. 19 and has since been released on bail, according to online inmate records.
The woman owned the daycare on Remount Road that opened this summer. The facility is now no longer listed as a business under its street address on Google and was marked as “permanently closed” weeks ago.
Bryant had been notified that an employee yanked an infant by her arms and slammed her into a crib in mid-July but never reported the suspected abuse to authorities, an incident report states.
The employee, 75-year-old Gladys Mitchell Rampersant, was charged with unlawful conduct toward a child on Sept. 11.
After the incident, Bryant reportedly called her attorney, who told her to keep the alleged abuse quiet and not report it to the Department of Social Services.
Bryant fired two subjects who told her about the incident and demoted a third, threatening termination if DSS was notified, according to the report.
A North Charleston detective and DSS investigator conducted an interview and a walk-through of the daycare on Sept. 5.
Bryant was released from the Charleston County jail hours after her Sept. 19 arrest on a $5,000 bond, set by Magistrate Judge Amanda Haselden, court records show.
She is scheduled to appear in court in early November, a week after Rampersant’s initial appearance.