Stepmom Charged with Child Abuse
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Simpson stepmother has been arrested for abusing two little girls.
25-year-old Melissa Dee Baker was taken into custody Monday.
According to arrest papers, the children ages 3 and 7 were digging through garbage looking for food and were so thirsty that they were drinking water from the toilet.
One of the children also apparently ended up with a broken arm.
Police also say one of the children was caught stealing food from other students` lunchboxes at school and at home, baker is accused of stabbing her stepchildren in the arm with a fork because the dishes were not cleaned properly.
She`s also accused of hitting the kids and stabbing one of them in the eye with a phone antenna.
The children are in the custody of their grandmother tonight.
Family members also went to children and youth officers telling them the children were not being fed.
