A grandmother in Ohio is facing a felony assault charge after admitting to intentionally shooting her six-month-old granddaughter in the eye.
Mia Desiree Harris, 43, pled guilty on Tuesday to the assault charge, according to Law&Crime . She also faced two charges relating to assaults of other family members but both of those were dismissed following her plea.
The violence unfolded in the early hours of December 9 last year. Police responded to a report in Liberty Township, 25 miles north of Cincinnati, that an infant had been shot at around 1:50am. A woman on the phone told a 911 operator that “my baby’s been shot, my baby’s been shot,” according to WXIX .
The 911 operator then asked the woman to confirm that her baby has been shot. “Yes,” she says. “Lord please save my baby.”
Responding officers found the child with a gunshot wound to the head. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones told WXIX at the time that the child had been shot through the eye.
The infant was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, but survived and is on the road to recovery, according to Journal-News .