A Hope Mills woman is facing multiple child abuse charges after investigators say she deprived a child of food, hit her and tied her to a bed.
Sandra Lurch, 66, was arrested Feb. 27 by the Hope Mills Police Department on one count of assault on a child under 12 and two counts each of intentional child abuse inflicting serious physical injury; misdemeanor child abuse; and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
According to the arrest warrant, the police investigation began Jan. 9 after a social worker with the Department of Social Services suspected abuse and neglect during a visit to Lurch’s home on Gaithersburg Lane, in the Fox Meadow neighborhood off Legion Road…