Woman Caught Beating Grandson

A local woman is accused of beating her young grandson so badly he lost consciousness, police said.According to police, Delores Henderson, 55, was walking down the street, hitting the two-year-old in the stroller and slamming it into the curb."People driving in the area of Dixon at this boulevard were witnessing this woman hitting this child," Barbara Matthews with Cocoa police said.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Fiske and Dixon Boulevard in Cocoa.Police arrived after being contacted by witnesses. Police said the beatings didn't stop, even after Henderson dumped the boy out of his stroller and on to the concrete."As he drove up, he saw her hitting the child in the head. She was slapping him with her open hand," Matthews said. "The officer described it as looking like a rag doll. She threw him back in the stroller and started to hit him again."An officer was eventually able to wrestle Henderson away from the child. The boy got up after being briefly unconscious."The child was walking toward traffic and the officer was still struggling with her," Matthews said. "He was trying to make the decision to let go of her, grab the child and just then, fortunately for us, a witness came up and grabbed the child before he could get out into traffic."The boy was released from the hospital on Saturday night.The grandmother is charged with aggravated battery and child abuse. She is still in jail. Police did not receive an explanation from her about why she may have done this.