A local man was arrested last week after he allegedly whipped his non-verbal autistic 4-year-old son to compel the child to go to bed.
Shunterrious Deondra Dubose, 29, of Ruston, was arrested Sept. 19 by Grambling Police following an investigation.
The Grambling Police Department was notified Sept. 18 by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services of a possible child abuse case involving a 4-year-old boy with “significant injuries on his upper torso,” according to a report.
Officers accompanied a DCFS investigator to Dubose’s home to follow up on the case last Friday. During questioning about the marks and bruising visible on the child, Dubose admitted to whipping the child several times across his hands with a belt in an attempt to get him to go to bed.
A Grambling PD report noted Dubose was arrested based on the “significant injuries observed” on the child.
DCFS took the child and his mother to the Northern Louisiana Medical Center for treatment.
Dubose was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for second degree cruelty to a juvenile.
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