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Police accuse Gastonia man of abusing girlfriend's child

GASTONIA, N.C. — Police arrested a Gastonia man Friday and charged him with child abuse, Channel 9's partner, the Gaston Gazette, reported.

Officials accused Darren Kyile Butler, 27, of abusing his girlfriend’s child at the couple’s house on Henry Avenue.

Officials said he gave the child a “busted nose, two cuts beside the right eye, lashings on the back of his right leg and lower back.”

Officers booked Butler into the Gaston County Jail on a $50,000 bond.

Butler was arrested and charged in April with one misdemeanor count each of assaulting a female and assault inflicting serious injury.