A Delaware mother has been arrested on assault charges when police discovered that she beat her 9-year-old son with an extension cord for taking a check from her checkbook so that he could buy a book from his school’s book fair.<\/p>\n
Serena Wardlaw<\/strong>, 42, of Briarcliff Drive in the New Castle, Del. community of Overview Gardens was arrested on four counts of assault and five counts of endangering the welfare of a child, police say.<\/p>\n Police were called to the 9-year-old boy’s elementary school after a school nurse discovered wounds on the boy’s arms, police say.<\/p>\n An investigation revealed that Wardlaw <\/strong>was enraged when she found out that her son took one of her checks and she beat him with an extension cord all over his body, police say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Delaware mother has been arrested on assault charges when police discovered that she beat her 9-year-old son with an extension cord for taking a check from her checkbook so that he could buy a book from his school’s book fair. Serena Wardlaw, 42, of Briarcliff Drive in the New Castle, Del. community of Overview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}