Left: Melissa Bilby and her daughter (GoFundMe). Right: Amanda L. Greger (Clermont County Jail).
An Ohio woman found wearing a blood-soaked sweatshirt after allegedly attacking a friend’s young daughter while babysitting overnight is now headed to prison.
Amanda Leigh Greger, 38, was sentenced in May to at least 3 1/2 years behind bars for the brutal assault of the 1-year-old daughter of her friend, Melissa Bilby.
As previously reported by Law&Crime, Greger was accused in November of inflicting serious injuries on the child, including blood “seeping from [the] right eye” and a brain bleed. The child’s condition was so critical that doctors placed her in intensive care under heavy sedation.
On May 28, Greger pleaded guilty to one count of felonious assault, according to a judgment and sentencing order reviewed by Law&Crime. Other charges in the case, including child endangerment, were dismissed.
Greger also admitted guilt to tampering with evidence. Authorities said that when Bilby returned to her Goshen Township home in the greater Cincinnati area after an overnight work shift, she found Greger asleep in the same room as the baby. Investigators said Greger was wearing a hooded sweatshirt “covered in what appeared to be blood and vomit.”
Police also reported finding bloodstains “located throughout the room,” according to the affidavit.
“The clothing [the victim] had been wearing was found in the washing machine, washed but still visibly stained,” the affidavit reads.
The victim’s mother confirmed that the stained clothing found in the washing machine was the same clothing that her daughter had been wearing when she left for work the previous evening and before she suffered the injuries.
According to the sentencing order, Greger did not speak at the hearing.
“The Court inquired of the defendant if they had anything to say on their behalf prior to sentencing, or if there is any good and sufficient reason why sentence should not be pronounced, and the defendant stated they did not,” the order says.
Following the baby’s admission to the hospital, Lindsay Bilby, the victim’s aunt, started a GoFundMe page for the victim and her family. The page identified the mother as Melissa Bilby and described Greger as a “lifetime friend” of Bilby’s whom she “trusted to protect and keep her kids safe while she worked to provide for them.”
The page also provided additional details about the victim’s injuries and prognosis.
“[The victim] was admitted to PICU [pediatric intensive care unit] with a brain bleed, bruised lungs, fluid along her spine, and fluid around her heart,” the fundraising page says. “She was intubated, then placed on a ventilator, and she is being kept heavily sedated to help her heal.”
