A Thibodaux mother and daughter were arrested Tuesday after a violent fight that left an infant with a fractured skull, according to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Disheekia McDowell, 39, and her daughter Jada McDowell, 22, were booked on domestic abuse battery with child endangerment and second degree cruelty to juveniles after a domestic dispute at Disheekia McDowell's home on Karla Drive.

An argument escalated into a physical fight, authorities said, in which the women allegedly used household objects to strike each other. During the struggle, Jada McDowell picked up her daughter but kept fighting her mother. At some point, the baby was injured.

Medical staff at a hospital determined she had suffered a skull fracture.

Both women were booked into the Lafourche Parish Correct

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