Woman beats son because he made Mother’s Day card for grandmother, deputies say

A 30-year-old woman is facing charges after she beat her son for making a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother and not for her, deputies said. Deputies were called Thursday evening to a home on Amos Street by a woman who said her daughter. Shontrell Murphy, had beaten her 6-year-old grandson. Murphy told deputies that she had disciplined her son because of behavioral problems at school, but that she did not hit him “hard or in a violent manner.” After talking with the boy and his 8-year-old sister, deputies said they determined that the boy had made a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother, and when Murphy found out it was not for her, she tore up the card up and repeatedly hit him in the head. The children told deputies that Murphy hits them all the time and they are afraid of her. The boy was taken by ambulance to the hospital to be checked out. Murphy was arrested and charged with cruelty to children. She is being held at the Spartanburg County Detention Center.

A 30-year-old woman is facing charges after she beat her son for making a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother and not for her, deputies said.

Deputies were called Thursday evening to a home on Amos Street by a woman who said her daughter. Shontrell Murphy, had beaten her 6-year-old grandson.


Murphy told deputies that she had disciplined her son because of behavioral problems at school, but that she did not hit him “hard or in a violent manner.”

After talking with the boy and his 8-year-old sister, deputies said they determined that the boy had made a Mother’s Day card for his grandmother, and when Murphy found out it was not for her, she tore up the card up and repeatedly hit him in the head.

The children told deputies that Murphy hits them all the time and they are afraid of her.

The boy was taken by ambulance to the hospital to be checked out.

Murphy was arrested and charged with cruelty to children. She is being held at the Spartanburg County Detention Center.