- October 23, 2024
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A 33-year-old Palm Coast woman wrote derogatory words on a juvenile family member’s face, shoved a metal bar in the child’s mouth, handcuffed the child inside a hot car and shaved the child’s head after the woman found sexually explicit photographs on the child’s phone, witnesses told deputies.
The woman’s coworkers saw the incident and reported it, leading to her arrest at 4:58 p.m. Aug. 11, according to a news release from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect, Priscilla Jocelyn Florentino, also resisted arrest.
Florentino is facing charges of child abuse without great bodily harm, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer without violence.
“You have the right to discipline, but this woman took her anger out on the victim in completely unacceptable ways and then tried to impede the deputies who responded to investigate,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said, according to the news release. “In my career, I’ve never seen someone do these kind of horrific acts to a minor as disciplinary measures. I hope she gets anger management classes, which she obviously needs.”
