{"id":236125,"date":"2026-04-17T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:01:16","slug":"two-arrested-after-6-year-old-arrives-at-volusia-school-with-bruises-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236125\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested after 6-year-old arrives at Volusia school with bruises, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Two people are behind bars after a 6-year-old girl showed up at school on Thursday with bruises on her face, the Volusia County Sheriff\u2019s Office says.<\/p>\n<p>The bruises led deputies to launch an investigation, which found the girl had experienced physical abuse that the suspects allegedly tried to cover up by keeping her out of school for two days, according to deputies.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies spoke with the svictim, she said she was hungry and hadn\u2019t been eating much, the sheriff\u2019s office says.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/crime\/former-broward-county-florida-catholic-school-st-coleman-principal-gets-probation-after-fraud-conviction-lori-ann-st-thomas-238000-theft-restitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Broward Catholic school principal gets probation after fraud conviction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputies say Jeffrey Morales, 29, is now facing a charge of child abuse. Melissa Husk, 35, is also facing a charge of child abuse, as well as failing to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Body camera video shows deputies arresting one of the suspects inside the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s bruises all over her body\u2014that\u2019s called child abuse,\u201d a deputy can be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>The video then cuts to a woman being arrested outside a home.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say that while speaking with them, the 6-year-old drew a picture for a sergeant, which she will keep in her patrol car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Two people are behind bars after a 6-year-old girl showed up at school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-236125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}