Police last week arrested a 24-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with risk of injury to a child and second-degree assault, both felony offenses.
At about 1:36 p.m. on March 12, officers were dispatched to a Millport Avenue home on a report of an assault by the woman on the victim, police said.
Through an investigation, authorities established probable cause for the felony charges as well as disorderly conduct.
It isn’t clear how the woman assaulted the victim or whether they’re related. Police withheld details.
Under state law, a person commits second-degree assault if he or she “[w]ith intent to cause serious physical injury to another person … causes such injury to such person or to a third person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument other than by means of the discharge of a firearm” or “with intent to cause serious physical injury to another person by rendering such other person unconscious, and without provocation by such other person, the actor causes such injury to such other person by striking such other person on the head,” among other reasons.”
The woman was held on $100,000 bond and scheduled to appear the following day in state Superior Court.
According to Connecticut Judicial Branch records, she since has been released on a promise to appear April 28.
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