A Clarke County grand jury this week indicted an Athens woman on a cruelty charge for allegedly beating her 9-year-old son with a belt.
The indictment stems from an investigation started by the Athens-Clarke County Department of Family and Children Services in May.
Athens-Clarke County police said the boy complained to a teacher he had been “beaten very bad” by his mother, 32-year-old Dateama Dawonna Burton, at their home at Bethel Midtown Village.