Jacquelynn Marie Miller

ATWOOD — An Atwood woman is being charged with battery after slapping one child and clawing another child in a drunken rage.

Jacquelynn Marie Miller, 36, 111 E. High St., Atwood, is being charged with two counts domestic battery to a person less than 14 years of age, level 6 felonies, and two counts domestic battery, class A misdemeanors.

An officer with the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to a battery complaint at Miller’s address March 19.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, when the officer arrived he observed two females standing next to a black minivan. One of the females advised the officer that she had been called to the residence by a neighbor who stated the woman’s grandkids were asking for help.

The female advised that when she arrived she saw injuries to child A.A. and put all three children into her van to protect them. She then opened the van door and the three children got out.

The affidavit states that the officer observed bleeding scratches all over A.A.’s torso, neck and face. When the officer talked to A.A., the child advised Miller was drunk and was yelling and hitting his sister, B.B. The child stated that he tried to protect B.B., and that Miller threw him on the bed and started scratching, clawing and slapping him.

The child continued, according to the affidavit, saying that Miller then turned back to B.B., slapping her in the face multiple times. The children then ran to the neighbors house and requested help.

A.A. further advised that Miller had attacked them in the past, but an older sibling who was not currently home usually stopped her.

Miller was given a portable breath test, registering .21 BAC.

Miller was booked into Kosciusko County Jail on March 19 with a $5,250 surety and cash bond.