- April 26, 2024
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A Bunnell woman beat her 7-year-old son with an extension cord after the child got in trouble in school, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
The case came to the Sheriff's Office's attention after the child on April 6 pleaded with a school employee at Bunnell Elementary not to call his mother about a disciplinary issue, saying she'd beaten him with an extension cord.
When deputies arrived at the boy's house the next day, his mother, 30-year-old Camer’ae Lateice Hubbert, admitted to a deputy that she'd beaten the boy with an extension cord multiple times, saying she'd looked for a belt to hit him with to discipline him for bad behavior, and couldn't find one.
The beating had occurred on March 23. The boy told investigators that his mother had hit him because he'd gotten into trouble at school.
A Child Protection Team checked the boy on April 8. He "still had visible marks on multiple areas of his body that were consistent with marks from an extension cord," according to a deputy's report.
Hubbert stopped cooperating with investigators, and deputies got a warrant for her arrest and arrested her on April 23.
Hubbert — who has been arrested multiple times since 2011 for charges including Battery Domestic Violence with Bodily Harm, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon without Intent To Kill, Aggravated Stalking, and Felony Failure to Appear — was released on a $2,500 bond the same day.
The case was the first solved through a partnership between the city of Bunnell, the Bunnell Police Department and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, according to a news release from the FCSO.
FCSO Major Case Detective Adam Barkoskie, assigned to investigate major cases in Bunnell, arrested Hubbert.
“This is a strong example of how our new partnership with the city of Bunnell and the Bunnell Police Department to handle major cases is successful,” Sheriff Rick Staly said, according to the news release. “Detective Barkoskie did an excellent job using all of the investigative techniques at his disposal to successfully obtain an arrest warrant in this case. This is a traumatic situation for the child. While parents have the right to appropriately discipline their child, this was a severe beating. We offered the mother assistance during this process, and she refused it. Now, we have to do what is necessary to keep her child safe.”
