A mother may be in trouble with the police after she is alleged to have pushed her nine-year-old son's head in a toilet after he went to bed without bathing.

The woman from Trelawny, is said to have travelled from her home to Grant's Pen, St Andrew, to bond with her son the day before the incident.

She, however, defeated the purpose of the visit when she allegedly abused the child.

THE STAR was told that in a fit of rage, the mother also used a piece of electrical cord to hit her son several times and left him with several cuts all over his body.

The woman's sister who had been taking care of the lad, said she is extremely hurt by her sister's action and has since sent the boy to spend the rest of his holidays with his father in Papine, St Andrew.

"He has been living with me in Grant's Pen since he was three just because I realise she wasn't ready for a child. I do everything for him, school, food, clothes, while she does nothing and I don't even let it bother me because that's how much I love him," the aunt said. "Since lately I kept telling her that she needs to be a part of his life and she must come visit him from time to time. Now I feel like I should have just let her live her life and stay in Trelawny because I have never hit the child."

The irate aunt told THE STAR her sister arrived at her home on Friday and was supposed to have spent two weeks there. However, she would only spend one day.

According to the aunt, on Saturday she awoke to the sounds of a little boy crying for 'murder'.

whipped boy

When she went to investigate she allegedly saw her sister swinging the piece of electrical cord wildly across her boy's body.

The lad is said to have ran inside a bathroom and tried to lock himself inside but was soon caught. He was said to have been held by the feet, his head forced inside the toilet bowl while the accused woman allegedly asked: "A dat yu like"?

The aunt said she threatened to call the police and the child was let go.

The mother is said to have left later that day without even saying goodbye to her child.

The aunt said that she sought the aid of the Grant's Pen police on Monday and was told she should submit a report to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA).

She, however, said that she may reconsider.

"I think I might just forget everything and do my thing. In reality, he is my child, since I've been taking care of him all these years. But I just might let the police get involved and have her locked up," she said.

When contacted, an officer from CISOCA told THE STAR to urge the woman to make a formal report so investigations can take place as incidents like this too often go unreported.

"These things happen everyday and our kids are being abused and will continue being abused if we don't make examples of the abusers," the officer said.