MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A 33-year-old mother told Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies that she had injured her 16-year-old daughter because she feared she had stolen an Apple iWatch, according to a deputy’s report.

On Monday afternoon, the teenage girl’s mother, Maricela Vasquez, was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center facing a charge of child abuse, according to inmate records.

The girl reported she “began to walk away to her room” when her mother became “irate,” grabbed her by the hair and started “scraping her nails against her face,” according to the deputies’ arrest report.

When deputies responded to the domestic violence in Miami-Dade County’s Leisure area, the teen “had visible lacerations that correlated to her being scratched in the face,” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

Deputies arrested Vasquez on Sunday afternoon along Southwest 292nd Terrace in the Redland community, according to an arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Vasquez at 2 p.m. on Sunday at TGKCC, and she was in tears during her mug shot. She appeared in bond court on Monday, and her bond was $2,500.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

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