Mother Arrested for Assaulting Child

a woman was arrested july 22 for hitting her 4-year-old child. the child's 23-year-old babysitter told police she saw dorothy yao strike her daughter in the face with her hand and a shoe, and then pick her up and slam her onto the floor inside an amsterdam houses apartment on 216 w. 62nd st. the child received a laceration to the chin. yao, 35, was arrested for assault.