ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE AFTER DEATH OF 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the death of a child and severe beating of another child and their mother over the weekend. According to a release from Benton County Sheriff Eric Knox, Benton County Dispatch was notified just before 1 a.m. on Sunday, December 20, regarding a 4-year-old female who was deceased. The father, 28-year-old James Mast, of a rural Cole Camp residence, stated that his daughter had been beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank before being taken back into the residence. The mother of the deceased, 28-year-old Mary S. Mast, and a 2-...
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