Have you ever seen her fight with her hands? But my big brother they smoke and drink or do they smoke? Well, my big brother. So, it came in from physical angry saying that the little girl, your daughter, had um a bunch of blood vessel in her eye and that she said that you had hit her in the face yesterday multiple times. I got statements from the kids saying that yes, this child got hit yesterday. On September 13th, 2024, officers responded to a call about a 37year-old Palm Beach County woman who allegedly beat a 10-year-old girl with a belt for getting homework answers wrong. The incident occurred at a home in Locks Hatchee where deputies found the girl with bruises and welts on her legs and buttocks after she reported the abuse to a school counselor as detailed by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Rules in the house, anything you're not allowed to do. I'm not allowed to close the door and that's it. You mean you're not allowed to close the door? Well, if we are allowed, you're not allowed to close the door. Okay. All right, sweetheart. Um, with your mom, what are you guys doing together? We drive around and you'll see our friends. All right. How's your relationship with your brother? The one that's here? Good. And your sister? Good. What about Cedric? He's good. Okay. What about the relationship with your mom? He's good. Why is it good with her? [Music] Because why? Okay. How do you know when your mom is upset? Does he yell at us? Have you ever seen her fight with her hands? My big brother. What do you mean? What you doing with him? Well, when we have a empty hands, see they always um what happens when you're good at home? You tell us what happen when you're bad. What happens when you guys are good? Nothing. All right. Do you know what a drug is? Mhm. What's a drug? What about alcohol? Yes. What's that? Have you ever seen anyone use drugs or alcohol? My mom. What did she use? Oh, my big brother. What do they use? Um, do they smoke or drink? Yes. Do they do both? They smoke and drink or do they smoke? Well, my big brother. We already smoke and my mom. All right. So, what does your mom smoke? And what does your brother smoke? And what does how does she act after she uh smokes? She go to sleep. So, does she act the same or different? She she acts the same. What about your brother after he smokes? Is it the same or different? The same. After your mom drinks, is she the same or different? She would give she brown. Do you know what a pack of cigarettes looks like? Yes. What's in a pack of cigarettes? Uh, they're green and white. How many are in there? A bunch or one? Five. Five. Does Does mom ever make her own cigarettes? No. No, she does not make her own cigarettes. Oh, she do? Yes, she do. How did How does she do that? Can you describe that? First, she put something on it. Mhm. Then she and then she put the top. Gotcha. Gotcha. Um, are you scared of anyone in or around your home? No. All right. So, the next question is, if you were scared of someone, who would you tell? My big brother and my mom. All right. Do you have any injuries? Do you have any marks? Any bruises? Any ouchies? None of that. All right, sweetheart. I just got to get a picture of you. Can you stand up for him, please? You can come over here. Right here. Right here. Ready. What time did you guys get picked up from school? Um, at school. Your mom is coming to get you? Yes. You did a good job. Would you like a little piece of candy? That's That's the reward for doing such a good job. You're very smart, by the way. Keep keep studying. Keep studying. You're doing very good. Very happy with you. All right. Enjoy your candy. See you later. All right. Byebye. Bye. Oh, hang on. Hold on. Oh, no. No. He's gone. Yeah. Correct. Correct. Can you please sir? You don't want to talk. But you don't have to talk anymore. You don't want to talk. Ma'am. Ma'am, come on. Ma'am tell you why we're here now. I was outside when this took place. I can't tell you. Ma'am, all I'm trying to do is get my kids because I work from home. That's it. I didn't do anything. I didn't abuse anybody. So there was there was algical injury saying that the little girl your daughter had um a busted blood vessel in her eye and that she said that you had hit her in the face yesterday multiple times. I got statements from the kids saying that yes this child got hit yesterday but there was different statements of how she got hit in her face yesterday of how many times she got hit in the face. Okay. Can I explain something? Can I explain something? Yes. before y'all do all of this because there's no need to do all of this. I don't have no background. I don't have I don't have no charges. I don't have no tickets. I don't have none of that. I take care of my kids. So, I did remove these kids back from you in the past in 2022 for physical injuries. The same reason why 2022 when she got that hit on her. Okay. So, you remember I came out then. So, you don't have history. No, having history because you got because someone has said that I did something is different from having evidence. Now, I could hold Hold on. I could fall down. Hold on. Face. No, I I'm the one that dropped her to school. I'm the one that took a picture of them this morning before we left our house. I could show y'all. I can show y'all my pictures that I have of my kids this morning. That was not there. But I'm You keep blowing up. Even the child is saying that she didn't see this in her eye this morning. She said she didn't see it. It was when she came to school, a friend was like, "Hey, your eye is red." Okay, so if she had So, excuse me. Okay, let's let's We're all adults here. I'm pretty sure you have children. I'm pretty sure you have children. If my daughter, the one that y'all saying is making or I abused is just told you and y'all just heard this from her that she didn't leave her house like that. She said she didn't see it. She Well, she has to look in the mirror cuz she brushes her teeth and washes her face. She said she didn't. She said she didn't. Okay. Well, she said she didn't. She say she didn't. But she did say that you hit her in her in her face in her mouth. And your other son said the same thing. Okay. Well, I'm I'm here to tell you I did not hit nobody in their mouth. I did not bust nobody's uh make a pink eye or black eye. I didn't do any of that. I can show you them kids at all. No, I don't. I do not because of this. Homework yesterday during homework. What happened? They're doing homework here. Yesterday when you called them into your bedroom while you was working to to have them do I don't call them in my bedroom. So you didn't call none of these children. None of these children gave me a lied statement. I don't know what they gave you. I don't know, ma'am. I don't know what they gave you. And you already know because of what you talking about 2022, you trying to use this right now to say that I did something. And what I'm saying back then and what I'm saying back then and what I said in 2022, if I fall down right now, I'm just going to get a bruise. That don't ne that don't necessarily say my mom bruised me. I don't know. This is my first time ever hearing something about this. The nurse called me early incident that happened yesterday. No, the nurse called me earlier this morning. Did their homework yesterday? They did their homework in the living room. They read a book when they get here when they get to my house, but they do their normal work here in school yesterday. No, ma'am. So, your child Where's the nurse? So, your child wasn't reading. Where's the nurse? Where's the nurse? Mispronouncing these words and you got frustrated. No, ma'am. Where's the nurse? Because the nurse called me this morning and said something about a a a red eye and she just told me and she's going to send Mala back to her class because she's complaining not complaining that her eye her. What's your home address? Now I come here and then I get that I abused my child. 150 15 north uh was I mean 33 like this is crazy. All right. Where is Nathaniel? He stays with his dad and you know that ma'am. Where is uh Cedric? He's home. How old is Cedric now? 17. He's back in Belg. We all reside in Belg. Why do they go here? Just because it's a different school or No, it's because the McKenna video act says that being homeless, sharing hardship, we qualified to come to this school. But whose address you using? The mayor. That's a friend's address. Okay. I'm just asking. The other address through Belgium. Mom, what's a good phone number for you? The same one. 575094. Yes. All right. You have any family members that these kids go with until um we figure out a plan? Yeah, they're auntie. This is not even necessary. No, they're they're um is it I'm maternal. Paternal aunt. What's her name? Nila Cooper. Where she live? the street, Florida. Seven. What's the phone number? Um, can I take these off to get it out my phone? How many um kids are here? Two, three, three. Sir, please don't. Please don't arrest me for what, sir? Sir, you didn't want to speak to us, sir. Look what I'm going through. Look what I'm going through because somebody said I did something that I didn't do. I've never been to jail for you very and I didn't and I didn't get out. I didn't get out loud. Have a seat. No, because I'm wondering why am I being here? You're going to jail because of injuries to your daughter and their notepad here. Thank you. They're in afterare and they're all together. They're all together in the afterare. Where's your car? My car. No, it's parked on the side of the street down there. Okay. Okay. So, if you guys I need to bring her out for my truck. I'm going figure out if we're doing Please don't do that to me. Please don't do that to me. That's That's crazy. Please don't do that. Let's see. My supervisor's here. I'm going I'm so sorry. I'm I didn't I didn't know that. I'm not I didn't do anything, ma'am. I swear I didn't do anything. All right. Well, that's We're going to document that. This is crazy. This is crazy. Yeah. Please don't do this to me. Can I stick with a sergeant? This is my sergeant. That's me. I am the sergeant and we're going off based off the statements from your children and the injuries to your daughter. They they didn't happen at school. Ma'am Ma'am what she said. Please listen to me. Can you please listen to me? I'm listening. You ran my name. I have no I never ran your name. I didn't run your name. Okay. Well, ma'am, if you run my name, I have no criminal record. It's not about that. I don't I I've never had I've never never have injured any one of my children. Yes, I might have did corporal punishment in the past, but they gave me parenting for that. And I learned my lesson. They took my kids already. But it's not I did learn my lesson. It's not And I haven't been I haven't been nothing to my kids, but a loving mother to my kids. It's not reasonable for a child to be coming in here. She But the thing is she wasn't like that when she left Friday because mom she she wasn't like that when when she came in. I had Can I show you the picture? That's not Can I please show you the picture, ma'am? Does it Why would you take a picture of it? I always take I always take pictures of them. I take pictures of them since the first day school started with their uniforms. No problem. Where's your car? They parked it down there. All right. Well, you need to No, my car is this way. No, his car. You need to go get your vehicle. All right. I'll come around. You got to go out in front of all the parents. Right. So, they'll be right back in the back. All right, let's walk this way. Yep. But hey, Sarge, I still have to get my Can I use the bathroom? And these are really tight, sir. I'll have to adjust them when I get out to my truck. I did give a statement. I said I didn't do anything. All right. I'm going to be double once I get another pair for my truck. Well, my truck, I think. All right. So, you got to have to lean forward. I'm sorry. Ow. These are really tight. Go right here and then we're going to walk around. Can I please use the restroom because I know this is going to be a long process before I get to use the restroom. Before you use the B for the contraband on you. Contraband such as needles. No. No needles. I have I have my weed because it's my uh I have my Where's the It's good that you tell us now because if we find it at the I have my card. I have my card to lift up a little bit. I know. I know. I know. You should You did it. I'm trying to get I can't even see. You want me to do it? You going to be able to? Yeah. Hold these for Yeah, absolutely. You got to bend forward. Oh, yes. My wrist is is twisted. I'm trying to Here we go. Yeah. Hold on. You got it. Yeah. I'm pulling it apart. All right. Lean up. Lean up. Okay. Oh, lean backwards. Yeah. Try to get your arm out a little bit. I'm trying and it's not working. Yeah. Let me get this one over here. Just relax. I'm relaxed, but it's just getting tighter. We're going to loosen it for you. Okay. Going to get tight. Loosen it for you. There you go. And they're not tight, sir. Well, they're not built for comfort. That's why I'm putting two on you right now to give it more comfortable. I only have one pair. Okay. So, we'll make it more comfortable. You work with us. We'll work with you. Simple. All right. All right. You going to do the bathroom? Yeah. Where's the bathroom at? I don't think it might be out here. That's right. No, it says staff on the door. All right. All right. Before you go in, the marijuana, put it up here. Yeah. Can you let me know where my car is at? Was where you parked it? Where you parked it? Uh, the lady said that she was going to park it. Okay, I'll give him the key. [Applause] [Music] Okay. I don't know what to say. I I mean, you pick up the arm. I'm not going to have a car. Pick it up. Well, somebody can pick you up and drive you here. I'll be here tomorrow. What time do you come here? I can have 7:00 tomorrow. 7:00. I can pick it up. So, what other car is it? It's a um a Toyota Camry 2022. All right. I'll I'll move it into Can I ask you something? No. a little past a little down from the bus. But ma'am, can I ask you something really quick because I've never been She was charged with aggravated child abuse following her arrest and booked into the Palm Beach County Jail. Her bond was set at $50,000 with no information provided on whether she posted it. Want to watch more videos like this one? Click the one on the screen now.