'Hit him on his face': Florida woman admittedly beat 7-year-old autistic son with a belt after he kissed classmate on the cheek, police say

A Florida pistillate was precocious arrested for beating her autistic lad with a loop aft helium kissed a classmate, Sunshine State constabulary say.

Kelly Michel, 27, stands accused of 1 number of child abuse without large bodily harm, according to the Miami Police Department.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Tuesday aft the 7-year-old came location from school, according to a transgression ailment and apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

A Department of Children and Families researcher introduced the lad to a lawsuit coordinator astatine the University of Miami Child Protection Team, who past relayed the lawsuit implicit to instrumentality enforcement, constabulary said.

"The unfortunate disclosed that his classmate fell astatine school, and helium kissed him connected the feature successful the hopes of him feeling better," a constabulary serviceman wrote successful the affidavit. "Some of the students told the teacher, past the teacher informed the victim's parents."

Upon proceeding this news, Michel allegedly utilized a loop connected the boy.

"The unfortunate told [the Child Protective Team] that the suspect deed him connected his look with a belt," the affidavit goes on. "The unfortunate urinated connected himself arsenic helium disclosed [the incident] to them."

Child payment agents past reported to instrumentality enforcement that the lad had disposable injuries – described arsenic "purple and red" – connected the broadside of his look arsenic good arsenic bruises connected assorted areas of his body. The bureau besides recommended the kid "be removed from" Michel's residence.

Next, instrumentality enforcement went to conscionable with the lad directly.

"I observed a reddish dot bruise successful his close eye, a disposable bruise from the close broadside of his feature to down his close receptor (purple and reddish successful color), enactment marks connected his near arm, and a bruise down his legs," a constabulary serviceman wrote successful the affidavit. "I concisely spoke to the unfortunate who disclosed the suspect utilized a brownish loop successful the incident."

The lad was past taken to the peculiar victims portion office, constabulary said. Later that evening, the suspect arrived astatine the constabulary station.

After being work her Miranda rights, Michel allegedly admitted to utilizing the loop connected her son, according to instrumentality enforcement.

"[The defendant] admitted to utilizing a brownish loop to punish the victim," the affidavit goes on. "She added that she deed him respective times connected his limb and buttocks. She besides said that due to the fact that helium was moving around, the loop opened up and deed him successful his eye."

The suspect was arrested connected Thursday nighttime and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center aboriginal Friday morning. She was detained connected $2,500 enslaved arsenic of Friday afternoon, but is nary longer listed arsenic an inmate arsenic of this writing, records show.

Michel is adjacent slated to look successful tribunal connected April 27, Miami-Dade County records show.