4-year-old girl ‘beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank’: Cops
Child Abuse
Deputies in rural central Missouri are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl who died early Sunday morning, her father said, when she was “beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank,” the Benton County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Mast, 28, called 911 just before 1 a.m. — when temperatures in …