A Delaware woman who allegedly hit her son several times with an extension cord for taking a check to buy a book faces felony assault and child endangerment charges, according to New Castle County police.
Arrested was Serena Wardlaw, 42, of the unit block of Briarcliff Drive in the Overview Gardens, a community in the New Castle area.
The 9-year-old boy told a school nurse about the incident after she asked about his injured arm. He had taken a check, hoping to buy a book at a school fair, and Wardlaw apparently got so upset, "she then struck him several times about his body with an extension cord," according to police.
Family service officials passed their suspicions passed along to police on Friday.
Her 7-year-old twin daughters also had "prior injury marks about their body that were consistent with being struck with the same object," police said.
Wardlaw was charged with five counts of child endangerment and four counts of second-degree assault.
She was released on $21,000 unsecured bail, and forbidden to have unsupervised contact with the children.