Etowah woman faces charges of child abuse

Arkansas-North Carolina Live Blog

ETOWAH, McMINN COUNTY - An Etowah woman has been released on $10,000 bond after allegedly choking and hitting her children. Etowah police arrested 47-year-old Rhonda Roderick, Saturday.

Roderick told officers she asked her 13-year-old daughter to clean trash off the floor, but her daughter refused.

That lead to an altercation, where Roderick allegedly put her hands around the girl's throat.

Read more at WRCB.

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