Mother kicking daughter (4); child dies

A four year-old girl in Gaithersburg (Maryland) is deceased after she was kicked by her 20-year-old mother.

According to police, Iris Hernandez-Rivas admitted her daughter Nohely have kicked in her stomach, reports Fox News.

The mother alerted the emergency services when she saw her daughter motionless in the bathroom. She had the child sent there to take a shower. Why are they then waited for an hour before she called the emergency number is not known.

The girl came to an alarming condition in the hospital. There, doctors found head injury and several bruises. That head injury Nohely would have incurred in accordance with the mother when she collapsed after a kick in her stomach with her head against the wall. The bruises were of earlier date and the result of a beating with a belt.

Autopsy should reveal what the exact cause of death. That could lead to more serious charges against the mother.