An Edinburg woman who worked as a nurse for a child with a disability in Mission has been arrested for allegedly assaulting and abusing the 11-year-old.
Mission police arrested 66-year-old Kathy Moses in Edinburg at 12:30 p.m. Friday after the child’s parents showed police videos of the abuse, law enforcement said in a news release Saturday.
Police initially arrived at a home in the 800 block of East Stonegate Drive in Mission in reference to an injury to a child report at 9 a.m. Thursday.
When police arrived, the victim’s stepfather told authorities he had heard Moses yelling at the child.
The stepfather told police he also caught the alleged abuse on video.
“The stepfather stated that he had installed cameras in the bedroom, so as he reviewed the cameras he observed the nurse … striking the victim on the head for no reason,” police said in a statement.
The videos the mother played for police show Moses allegedly hitting and slapping the child.
Moses is facing charges of injury to a child (elderly individual or disabled individual), and appeared before Mission Municipal Court Judge Jonathan Wehrmeister, who set her bond at $100,000.
She remained jailed Saturday.
