P.S. v. State

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, P.S., was convicted of the willful abuse, cruel beating or otherwise willful maltreatment of a child under the age of 18 by failing to protect the child from physical assault by a third party, in violation of § 26-16-3, Code of Alabama 1975. She was adjudicated a youthful offender and was sentenced to imprisonment in the custody of the State of Alabama for a term of three years.

The evidence tended to show that on the morning of January 26, 1989, the appellant awoke to find her live-in boyfriend, Roland Ray, bathing the appellant’s two-year-old daughter,…