Police: Woman charged with murder of 2-year-old child Googled how to hide bruises

Brianna Rufina Bloyer

A Lake Lynn woman was charged with murder, accused of beating her boyfriend’s 2-year-old boy so severely that the toddler was left brain dead.

State police allege the attacks by 30-year-old Brainna Bloyer left Bentlee Myers’ face, arms and legs bruised and caused bleeding in his brain and retinal hemorrhages.

According to the criminal complaint, around noon on August 16, emergency services were called to 1001 Old Lake Lynn Road for the report of an unresponsive child. The caller, who was not identified in court paperwork, told police that when they saw Myers, his feet were up, his face was blue and he appeared not to be breathing.

Myers was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced brain dead and died on August 19. Hospital officials said Myers died of “cardiac arrest due to head trauma.”

On Aug. 16, police said, Bloyer told authorities that Myers had been living with her and his father Brett Bissett for about two weeks. She told police that the day the toddler was taken to the hospital, he tripped and collapsed. She told police she was looking for how to help someone who passed out on her cell phone.

Police confirmed the search was underway and uncovered other searches conducted between August 8 and 9 on how to ‘fade bruises overnight’, for ‘homemade bruise cream’ and how long it lasts to fade carpet prints on a face.

Police said Myers’ father told them he didn’t know what could have caused Myers’ bruises and that he noticed Bloyer was stressed and frustrated with the child when he got home from work.

On September 25, Bloyer was scheduled to meet with investigators but did not show up at the state police barracks. The complaint stated that her vehicle was seen in the state of Indiana and Arizona.

It is not clear whether Bloyer ultimately turned himself in or was arrested by police.

Bloyer is currently being held in the Fayette County Jail without bond and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Nov. 20 before Judge Richard Kasunic.