Hialeah Police arrest Gineth Ramirez for aggravated child abuse following 10-year-old daughter's reports of burns and restraint

A local resident faces felony criminal charges involving child abuse allegations, resulting in an arrest and detention at the county correctional center.

• •Gineth Ramirez, 35, was arrested Thursday by Hialeah Police following a child abuse investigation.
• •The investigation began after the Department of Children and Families received a report from the suspect's 10-year-old daughter.
• •The child reported being burned as punishment for misbehaving and having her hands tied behind her back with rope or handcuffs while sitting in a brown chair.
• •A child protective investigator observed three injuries appearing to be burn marks on the girl's right forearm, right shin, and upper right thigh.
• •Hialeah Police Special Victims Unit detectives interviewed the child at school, and a crime scene technician photographed the injuries.
• •During a recorded interview, Ramirez stated she and her daughter were making flan about 15 days earlier when hot flan accidentally fell on the child's leg.
• •Ramirez denied knowing how the other two injuries occurred and denied tying her daughter's hands or hitting her.
• •Ramirez was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and faces one count of aggravated child abuse causing great bodily harm or torture.