A mother called deputies after discovering a bruise on her 2-year-old daughter’s face and said a relative who had been staying with the family admitted smacking the child. But the relative gave deputies a different story about what happened. According to a Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office report, the mother noticed a small bruise on her […]
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