When an 8-year-old walked into her Broward elementary school with two black eyes and dried blood on her ears, a school counselor acted fast to save the child from possible abuse, deputies say. By the end of the school day, the little girl’s stepmother was in handcuffs.
Melirose Joncky, 42, is facing charges of aggravated child abuse and child neglect with great bodily harm, records show. As of Wednesday, she remained in the Broward Jail’s North Bureau following her Thursday, April 9, arrest.
On April 9, a school counselor at Tedder Elementary in Pompano Beach noticed one of her second-grade students was covered in injuries: two black eyes, a large contusion on her forehead, dried blood coming from her ears and scratches on her arms and neck, Joncky’s arrest report read…