BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — A Beaver Falls mother is accused of hitting her 9-year-old daughter with a two-by-four.
Charmeairria Stanford is being charged with assault and child endangerment.
According to the criminal complaint, police say Stanford used a two-by-four on her 9-year-old's bottom, "hitting the victim with the board every time the child got her spelling words wrong."
WPXI went to Stanford's home in Beaver Falls where she lives with her mother, but no one answered.
She admitted that she had disciplined the child using the board, but she didn't believe she injured her daughter, according to police paperwork.
Police say the hits with the board were always over improper homework.
Police got involved when the child's father brought her to the hospital for unusual bruising on her hands and bottom. They said social services is now involved.
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