A 9-year-old girl has been charged for fatally beating her younger brother. The little girl, who has not been named, is facing a first-degree assault charge in connection with the death of her 4-year-old sibling.
According to WALA, her aunt Yolanda Denise Coale revealed to investigators that she awoke to the sound of screams last Wednesday at her home in Mobile, Alabama, only to find the 9-year-old beating the young boy with a broomstick.
Officers then responded to the medical emergency, but when they arrived at the scene, he was already dead. Just awful. Related: Gabby Petito Murder Case ‘Still Open’?!
What’s Going On? In court documents obtained by the local news outlet, the 9-year-old allegedly “did willfully torture, willfully abuse and cruelly beat” the young boy.
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