Police say the woman wrote the word "pervert" with a felt tip pen on the boy's forehead

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A 34-year-old mother in Missouri is accused retaliating against a 9-year-old boy by shaving his head.Officers in Eureka say the mom was upset after her daughter told her what the boy did to her.Police say a the woman's 9-year-old daughter was spending the night with the boy's sister in the Legend Terrace apartment complex. Investigators say the boy went into the room where the girls were and pulled the neighbor girl's hair. When she sat up, the boy told police he accidentally hit her in the chest. When she went home, police say she told her mother she was touched inappropriately. "The next day the 9 year old boy went to the neighbors house looking for his sister and the mother of the young girl who was upset with the young boy pulled him into the apartment, shaved his head," Lt. Dave Wilson said. Police say the woman wrote the word "pervert" with a felt tip pen on the boy's forehead. Now that mother could face assault charges on a minor. "She certainly admitted to the accusations and obviously regrets her decision," Lt. Dave Wilson said.