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Mom arrested for watching TV as daughter kills son
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (Reuters) -- The mother of a 10-year-old girl who beat her 4-year-old brother to death on the instructions of their stepfather was arrested for watching television during the incident, officials said Saturday. Natasha Guerrero, the children's mother, was arrested on charges of negligently permitting child abuse resulting in the death her son, 4-year-old Devon Booth, said Las Cruces Police spokesman Mark Nunley. Devon's sister kicked, punched and hit him allegedly on the instructions of their stepfather, Louie Guerrero, 38. The boy was being punished for bed wetting and drinking from the toilet, and was beaten late on September 21 and into the next morning. He died in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, hospital Monday. The complaint said the stepfather instructed the sister to punish Devon while the mother watched television in another room. He was arrested earlier in the week on charges of child abuse resulting in death. Both parents are in the Dona Ana County Detention Facility and a grand jury hearing on the charges is scheduled for Thursday, said a spokesman for the Las Cruces district attorney's office. The girl was not charged because of her age. She and two other children in the home are with the state child protective services and will likely be placed in foster homes.
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