MDSO: Mother charged after child found ‘covered in scars’ from phone charging cord

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A South Florida mother is facing charges over allegedly abusing her 10-year-old daughter.

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Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said they took 42-year-old Ketsia Pierre Paul of northwest Miami-Dade into custody on Monday.

According to investigators, officials at the girl’s school contacted the Department of Children and Families after observing “multiple marks on her neck, arms and chest which appeared to be burn marks.”

Authorities had the girl examined by the Child Protection Team, who advised deputies the girl was “covered in scars, scarred abrasions, and a keloid scar, which were consistent with being hit with a telephone charging cord.”

When detectives spoke with the girl, they said she told them she was being abused at home “almost daily” with a phone charging cord, but was afraid to say who her abuser was, only that her abuser’s name started with the letter “K”.

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Deputies wrote in Pierre Paul’s arrest report that she was the only person who lived with the girl whose name began with the letter “K”.

When investigators spoke with Pierre Paul, she admitted to seeing the injuries on the child, but said she “never sought out medical attention or to inquire who was harming her child,” according to her arrest report.

Jail records show she is facing felony charges of aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm and child neglect with great bodily harm.

As of Thursday morning, Pierre Paul was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

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