Gaming dispute leads Stamford woman to allegedly whip son with electrical cord

STAMFORD — A city woman was arrested over the weekend for allegedly whipping her 11-year-old son with an electrical cord and biting him during a dispute over the youngster’s video gaming habits.

Sgt. Brian Butler said police were called to street off Stillwater Avenue on Stamford’s West Side Saturday afternoon on the report of a woman assaulting her son.

After speaking to the boy and the 37-year-old woman, who is not being identified in order to protect the identity of her son, police determined that she was vacuuming and cleaning up their residence when she became upset because her son was on his PlayStation and not helping out.

The woman said she became upset because the boy refused to do his chores and took the PlayStation and locked it in her car. The boy then became upset and began calling his mother an idiot and other disrespectful terms.

Unhappy with the boy’s name calling, the woman allegedly began whipping the boy with the cord to her vacuum, Butler said.

After being whipped several times, the boy went upstairs and into his mother’s room, where he began throwing things off her bureau.

The two then got into a fight and the woman bit the boy. The boy went back downstairs and got into a video chat with his aunt and told her to call the police, which she did.

Butler said the boy had welts from the cord on his left shoulder, left hip and left elbow. The boy also had a bite mark on his chest, Butler said. The woman was charged with felony counts of second-degree assault, risk of injury to a child and disorderly conduct.

jnickerson@stamfordadvocate.com