A mother in Missouri has been arrested for allegedly beating a juvenile child with a phone charging cord and starving her as punishment, sometimes forcing the child to go multiple days without food.

Breashia Jwantae Grant was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count of felony first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and one count of felony third-degree domestic assault, court records show.

According to a probable cause affidavit, deputies with the Boone County Sheriff's Department responded to a "suspicious incident" at a home in the 5600 block of North Rocky Fork Drive at about noon on Friday. The department's communications unit advised that multiple neighbors had called about a child who "appeared to be hiding when cars passed."

Upon arriving at the address, fir

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