Florida man arrested after beating girlfriend's 5-year-old with mop handle for having an 'accident': Deputies

A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly hit his girlfriend's son with a mop, which resulted in a fractured skull. was arrested after he allegedly hit his girlfriend's son with a mop, which resulted in a fractured skull.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said that Shawn M. Stone, 32, allegedly beat his girlfriend's 5-year-old son with the mop handle after the child urinated in his bed in Deland, Florida, on Wednesday.According to, an arrest report states that the woman left her house on Wednesday for a doctor's appointment with her daughter and had a"gut feeling" of something being off at her house.

Upon opening the camera application on her phone, the woman saw Stone standing over her 5-year-old-son and punching him repeatedly in the head, according to the arrest report. The child was lying in bed at the time and curled in the fetal position. Stone kept kicking the child as he pleaded with him to stop, but Stone allegedly got a mop and used it to hit the boy even more, the document states.

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