SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police in northwestern Iowa have arrested a woman they say hit her 10-year-old son with a metal trash can as she fought with her mother.
The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1PNxd7R ) that the 32-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after the incident. Police say the woman was involved in a fight with her mother around 1 p.m. at her home. When the boy attempted to separate the women, police say, his mother hit him in the head with the trash can.
Police say the boy suffered a large cut on his head and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment.
His mother faces a felony charge of child abuse causing injury.
