A Miami mom beat young daughter and made her eat from garbage, deputies say
A Miami-Dade County woman is accused of beating her 8-year-old daughter and making her eat from the garbage, sheriff’s office detectives say.
Deputies went to the woman’s house in the 700 block of Northwest 81st Street Saturday morning for a welfare check and found the girl with scars and marks on her body, according to the arrest report of her mother, 27-year-old Naseline Timouche.
The deputies were called to the house by a neighbor who told the sheriff’s office that she often allows the girl to stay at her home because her mother leaves her alone for hours, sometimes overnight. The woman also said she feeds the girl and provides her with clean clothes, according to the report.
The girl told deputies that her mother beats her with a cord, a frying pan and a spatula. The girl said Timouche makes her eat from the trash because food in the home “is for guests,” the report states.
The girl said her mother recently hit her with a charging cable, and deputies wrote in the report that she had a scar on her face consistent with that abuse. After deputies read Timouche her rights, she told them that she hit her daughter with a charging cable and that she didn’t get home that day until 5 a.m., according to the report.
On Monday, Timouche was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center waiting for a judge to set bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and felony child neglect.
Timouche is being represented by an attorney with the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office, who did not respond to a request for comment.
