A Pinellas County caregiver who also held a job at a St. Petersburg daycare was arrested after surveillance footage allegedly showed her assaulting a 10-year-old non-verbal child with autism inside a Largo group home. Detectives identified the suspect as 38-year-old Shannon Cooper, who was taken into custody on January 21 and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a child abuse charge. The case began after the child’s father noticed visible injuries during a December pickup and reported what he saw to deputies, which triggered the investigation.
What the video shows
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, detectives reviewed surveillance video that shows Cooper “excessively battering” the child. The sheriff’s release says the recording…..