Tampa Police arrested a 22-year-old woman Monday and charged her with beating her one-year-old for eating her marijuana.
Police said India Couch faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, child abuse, child neglect, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Investigators said that the child, who had been left unsupervised, found the marijuana in Couch’s purse, and ate some of it.
Police said that’s when Couch beat the child with a sandal and then hit him hard enough to leave welts. Police said she also attacked her live-in partner with a dumbbell.
Arrest records indicate she’s being held under a bond of $7,500.






