Two sisters in Atlanta have been charged over the killing of a three-year-old boy whose only crime, police said, was taking a cupcake. Kejuan Mason had sneaked the cupcake from the kitchen while at home with Glenndria and Lashirley Morris, the BBC quoted the police as saying. According to the indictment, Lashirley then beat the child with a baseball bat while her sister Glenndria, his legal guardian, spanked him with her hand. The child died of blunt force trauma to his head and his torso, a hospital official said. The Morris sisters had given conflicting accounts of what happened on October 31, 2017, initially claiming he had choked on the cupcake, the media reports of the time quoted the police sources as saying.

Source: Hindustan Times February 02, 2018 05:15 UTC