Miami mother accused of abusing 8-year-old son, keeping him home from school for months

MIAMI – A 35-year-old Miami girl was once arrested Tuesday on accusations that she again and again punched her 8-year-old son within the face and stored him home from school for a number of months.

According to her arrest record, 3 detectives answered to the circle of relatives’s home previous within the day to research a imaginable kid overlook incident.

When they arrived, they had been met by way of the 8-year-old sufferer, who instructed them he had gotten into an issue together with his mother, Joni Lyn Lowery, previous within the day and she or he punched him more than one instances at the proper facet of his face, leaving at the back of a visual welt and bruise, government mentioned.

According to the record, the boy additionally instructed detectives that he had witnessed his mother the former evening hanging a white powered substance, which got here from a small baggie, right into a cigarette prior to smoking it.

He mentioned she “does that all the time” and in addition knowledgeable detectives that he hadn’t been to school for the previous 4 months, the record mentioned.

According to police, detectives attempted to make touch with Lowery who was once throughout the home along with her 1-year-old son, however she didn’t come to the door.

Police mentioned City of Miami Fire Rescue was once then known as to accomplish a compelled access.

According to the record, the detectives discovered Lowery drowsing in mattress along with her more youthful son.

She “woke up visibly intoxicated and seemed to be on drugs, incoherent and with bloodshot eyes,” the record mentioned.

Police mentioned there wasn’t any meals or water within the home, and she or he claimed she had no longer bought meals as a result of she was once ready for her meals stamps to come back in that day.

She additionally said that her son hadn’t been to school in 4 months because of her lacking some forms, the record mentioned.

Police mentioned an nameless witness approached detectives right through the investigation and mentioned she had prior to now noticed Lowery hitting her older son and mentioned that the mother was once “always high on drugs.”

Lowery was once arrested on fees of kid overlook, battery and failure of a guardian to keep an eye on school attendance.

Police mentioned Lowery’s two sons are actually within the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.