Staff writer Caitlyn Jones reports:
Shannetta Robinson
A DeSoto woman was arrested Tuesday after police said she assaulted her 12-year-old daughter with a belt outside the girl’s school.
Shannetta Robinson, 37, has been charged with injury to a child. Robinson was picking up her daughter Tuesday afternoon from Bishop Dunne Catholic School when Robinson pulled out a leather belt and started beating the girl, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Robinson reprimanded the girl for missing tutoring earlier that day. The girl told police that Robinson beat her while they were in the car and then hit her and pulled her hair, police records show.
The child got out of the car and went inside the school to tell a faculty member, who called police. Robinson drove away but returned about 45 minutes later after police called her sister, police said.
When asked why she left the scene, Robinson told police that she was tired of dealing with her daughter, the warrant says. Robinson said she didn’t pull the girl’s hair or use a belt to hit her, police said.
The child had a cut on her right temple and blood clots in both eyes after the assault, police said. She was released to her aunt, and Child Protection Services is investigating.
Robinson’s daughter also told police that in the past her mother has removed all the furniture in her room and forced her to sleep on the floor as punishment, the warrant says.
According to court records, Robinson also had a civil protective order placed against her in 2013. She remains in the Dallas County jail. Her bail had not been set Wednesday morning.