JACKSONVILLE — A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer accused of beating her child with a plastic hanger has been arrested.
The child victim told a school administrator on Oct. 12 that they were struck several times with a clothes hanger after misbehaving at school.
The officer allegedly broke the first clothes hanger, then grabbed a second hanger and continued to discipline the child.
Patrol officer Erica Nicole McRae, a 12-year veteran of the agency, is charged with child abuse with a weapon, a third-degree felony, according to FCN.
The Officer is on leave and has hired an attorney.
Watch the press conference below – Undersheriff Pat Ivey with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office talks with local media about the arrest of a JSO police officer for Child Abuse:
