Christopher Rucas News Today

A New York City mom who brutally beat her nine-year-old daughter to death with an electrical cord and a broom during an argument over a missing tablet has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. 

Shamaine Cato allegedly waited two hours to call 911 after Shalom Guifarro, 9, died on Sunday. On Monday, Cato was pictured being escorted by NYPD officers to a cop car.

A 9-year-old girl was discovered dead with bite marks on her back and trauma to her head in an apartment she lived in with her mother, sister and a pit bull. Police found Shalom Guifarro at the apartment in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood...

Shamaine Cato, 48, the mother of a 9-year-old Brooklyn girl found dead in her familys apartment with head injuries and bite marks is being questioned by police after she waited to call 911

She has been charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, and abandonment of a child.

She has been charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, and abandonment of a child.