BY TIM WILLERT twillert@opubco.com
A woman is accused of beating her 12-year-old son with a belt because he was failing a class, court papers show.
Whitney Dennene Reece, 27, was charged Tuesday in Oklahoma County District Court with child abuse.
Edmond police were alerted in December after a man who rented a room to the woman found a message from the boy written on a bathroom scale asking him for a ride “to the police department to show the marks and bruises,” a detective wrote in a probable cause affidavit.
The boy's injuries included bruises, marks and abrasions to his back, leg and chest “consistent with being hit with a belt,” police reported.
Reece admitted “to whooping her son” Dec.
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