A Homestead Mother Attacked On Homeless Teen, Now She Is In Custody

HOMESTEAD, Florida — After meeting a homeless teenage girl who was hurt a few days after an attack, a police officer in Miami-Dade County has charged a 41-year-old mother with abusing her children.

Elizabeth Polo was being held by correctional guards on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to Miami-Dade inmate records.

A police officer encountered Polo’s daughter on Wednesday at a Chevron near Southwest 187 Avenue and Mowry Drive, according to an arrest record from the Homestead Police Department.

The homeless kid had “several scratches around her neck, chest area, and her right arm,” according to the police officer, who also noted “minor redness on the right side of her face.”

Polo allegedly attacked the adolescent girl on Sunday by “placing both hands around her neck and shaking her and squeezing her neck vigorously,” according to police reports.

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According to police, the teenager also claimed that Polo had told her to leave her Mowry Villas home. As a result, she had gone to a friend’s house for the night and was attempting to locate an aunt for assistance.

Polo was reportedly arrested by Homestead police officers at the HPD station at 3:40 p.m. on Wednesday, and she was reportedly booked by jail authorities at approximately 10:20 p.m. on the same day.

According to court documents, Polo appeared before a Miami-Dade bond court judge on Thursday. The judge set Polo’s bond at $5,000 and commanded her to keep away from her adolescent daughter.

The prosecution brought felony accusations of child abuse without serious injury and strangling as forms of domestic assault. Lady Jean, the Circuit Judge, was supposed to hear the case.

At 1-800-799-7233, the nationwide hotline seeks to assist victims of domestic abuse seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. The abuse hotline for the Florida Department of Children and Families is 1-800-962-2873.