Original report
Aiken woman charged in child cruelty case after juvenile head injury
Deputies reported finding a child with a large bump on the head and blood coming from the nose at an Aiken home on Hutto Pond Road.
Quick take
- Patricia Smith, 65, was booked Aug. 9 on a cruelty to children charge after deputies said a juvenile reported being struck in the head with a tire tool at an Aiken home.
- The child told deputies Smith, identified in reports as the child’s great-grandmother, hit him in the forehead with the tool, while Smith said the injury came from a fall outside.
