St Catherine mother charged after 4-y-o daughter sustains burns during beating

A 24-year-old St Catherine mother has been charged with cruelty to a child after her four-year-old daughter sustained burns from falling into a lit coal stove while the woman was beating her.

It is alleged that on Sunday, April 6, the Spanish Town woman was beating her daughter with a broomstick when the child fell into the coal stove and sustained burns to her back.

The child was taken for treatment, and a report was made to the Spanish Town police.

An investigation was launched, which resulted in the mother being arrested.

She was charged on Monday, April 7, and is scheduled to appear in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday, April 11.

- Rasbert Turner

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