HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A 35-year-old woman told a detective that her 10-year-old daughter suffered a burn while they both made flan in her kitchen in Hialeah, but the detective didn\u2019t buy it \u2014 the girl had described how her mother punished her, according to a police report. <\/p>\n
On Friday morning, Gineth Ramirez, who also has a 2-year-old son, was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, accused of torturing her daughter, according to arrest and inmate records. <\/p>\n
During the investigation, a Florida Department of Children and Families\u2019 child protective investigator responded to the Thumbelina Learning Center in Hialeah and met with Ramirez\u2019s daughter, according to police. <\/p>\n
The girl reported Ramirez \u201cburned her on her arm and legs because she misbehaves,\u201d and she \u201cmakes her sit on a brown chair and ties her hands to the back with a rope or handcuffs,\u201d according to a police officer\u2019s report. <\/p>\n
Records show the DCF investigator described what \u201cappeared to be first-degree burn marks,\u201d and a detective photographed the girl\u2019s injuries: \u201cA burn mark on her right forearm, a burn mark on her right shin, and a burn mark on the inside of her upper right thigh.\u201d<\/p>\n
A detective questioned Ramirez on Thursday in Hialeah. Ramirez said her daughter had suffered one burn 15 days ago, but she couldn\u2019t explain the other two, according to a police officer\u2019s arrest report. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim and she were in the kitchen cooking flan … the victim told her she wanted to eat a piece of the flan … she handed the victim the spoon with flan and told her to blow because it was hot … she handed the victim the spoon but she did not grab it and instead it fell on her leg,\u201d the detective wrote, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n
Ramirez told police that she doesn\u2019t use corporal punishment, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe does discipline the victim by making her sit on a chair and face the wall when she misbehaves, but she has never tied her hands with ropes or handcuffs,\u201d a detective wrote, according to the police report. <\/p>\n
Police officers arrested Ramirez shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday at her home in Hialeah, and corrections booked her shortly after 6:10 p.m. at TGKCC, records show. She faced one count of aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm. <\/p>\n
Ramirez was scheduled to appear in bond court on Friday morning in Miami-Dade County, and the girl was scheduled to undergo a forensic interview on Friday afternoon, records show. <\/p>\n
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over the case. <\/p>\n
FDCF investigators ask anyone with information about child abuse to report it online on this page<\/a> or call 1-800-962-2873 or The National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453.<\/p>\n Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report. <\/p>\n Here is a list of warning signs of child abuse:<\/p>\n Unexplained injuriesChanges in behavior or destructive or aggressive behaviorKids engaging in risk-taking behaviorsKids displaying fear of going home or of specific adultsChanges in school attendance or performanceLack of personal care or hygieneSexual behaviors that aren\u2019t age-appropriate, symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases, or urinary tract infectionsEating disorders Withdrawal and disassociationOlder children using coping mechanisms such as sucking their thumb or attaching to a stuffed animal<\/p>\n Sources: National Children\u2019s Alliance<\/a>, Cornell University<\/a>, National Library of Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A 35-year-old woman told a detective that her 10-year-old daughter suffered a burn while they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-396999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396999","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=396999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}