A 22 year-old Houston woman was arrested after beating her younger sister unconscious for eating her Cheetos.
Officials said the 10 year-old had bruises all over her body.
KMOV reported:
A 22-year-old woman who was resentful for being forced to raise her 10-year-old sister beat the child unconscious in a fit of rage, according to Houston police.
Deby Janis Mejia was charged with felony injury to a child.
Mejia had been raising her little sister alone since their mother was deported to Honduras in 2006. She was angry for being forced to raise the child, according to investigators.
Mejia went to the store to buy some things on October 11 and returned to find her little sister snacking on a bag of Cheetos she had gotten from the neighbor. For some reason, the big sister just snapped.
Mejia began beating the little girl with an extension cord, then grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground. She then banged the child’s head on the floor until she passed out, investigators said.
CPS got involved after the child was seen at school with multiple bruises on her body and a bump on her head. She was taken to the hospital to be examined.
In September, a St. Louis man was stabbed to death after fighting over a bag of Cheetos.
