A day care worker in Northeast D.C. has been arrested and charged with criminal child cruelty.
Shantae Denise Smith, 27, of Northeast D.C., was arrested Wednesday following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department's Youth and Family Services Division, police said Friday evening.
Smith worked at a day care on the 4300 block of Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue NE. She was charged with first-degree cruelty to children. More details about the alleged cruelty were not immediately available.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 202-727-9099, or send an anonymous tip by text message to 50411.
