MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Records show a 9-year-old Alabama girl was charged with assault after allegedly using a broomstick to beat her younger brother, who later died.
Court documents show that Yolanda Coale, the boy’s aunt and legal guardian, told officers she awoke last Thursday to the sound of the children screaming. She says she found the girl hitting her brother with a broomstick.
The boy died and Coale was charged with aggravated child abuse the next day. Notes on court documents show the girl was charged with assault.
No one was charged in the child’s death. An autopsy will determine what killed the boy.