Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Woman arrested on child abuse charges


Jessica Joy Baxter

Deputies say a 31 year old Anniston woman who was released from the Calhoun County Jail on Friday has been accused of abusing her boyfriends 5 year old son in December.   Jessica Joy Baxter, has been charged with felony child abuse.  According to investigators, the abuse took place in a home on Gallatin Drive, where Baxter had been living with her boyfriend and five children.  A Department of Human Resources worker and the victim’s father reported the abuse to deputies in January. Baxter is accused of punching, choking and spanking her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son with a belt in December.
Baxter turned herself in at the Calhoun County Jail on Friday and was released on a $15,000 bond .

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