A young girl was admitted to the hospital after suffering extensive physical abuse by her mother.
Brittany Ruck, 25, of Conway, Pennsylvania, became so angry with her 6-year-old daughter when she couldn’t count to 12 that she lifted the little girl out of a chair by her hair. The child was pulled so hard that ‘the girl’s scalp was separated from her skull and blood pooled around the girl’s eyes.’
Ruck reportedly admitted to authorities that she had pulled the young girl’s hair on multiple occasions.
Doctors at Children’s Hospital alerted police when the girl was brought in suffering from traction on August 31, a few days after the incident. The child then revealed what happened, and said that her mother had pulled her hair to throw her in a corner the day after she was pulled from the chair. ‘The little girl told us she could only count to 10 because she had 10 fingers, but she couldn’t count any higher. That’s when the mother grabbed her by her hair,’ Conway police Officer Mike Priolo told WPXI. ‘It’s just sad because she didn’t do anything wrong and she had to bear the brunt of pain.’
Ruck is being held in the Beaver County Jail on a $50,000 bond and faces charges including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
The married young mother has two other younger children, a son and a daughter. All three children have been placed in the care of family members at this time. All three children have been placed with other family members at this time.