Mom who bound young kids' wrists, shoved them 'down a flight of stairs,' then brushed it off as 'normal discipline' learns her fate

A 29-year-old Ohio parent is headed to situation for binding the hands of her 2 young children and shoving each of them down a formation of stairs, aboriginal telling authorities she considered it "normal discipline."

Daisha Phillips was sentenced to 2 years successful situation Monday aft she pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of child abuse. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker said helium considered imposing a stiffer condemnation but yet said helium would grant the statement betwixt prosecutors and defence attorneys, according to a courtroom study from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

"This 1 volition instrumentality with maine for a while," helium told the defendant. "These children volition ne'er beryllium capable to bask the puerility they merit due to the fact that of their mom."

Phillips and her 2 children — past a 4-year-old lad and 5-year-old miss — lived successful Winton Hills, astir 100 miles southwest of Columbus. According to a probable origin affidavit, the maltreatment of Phillips' lad took spot "on oregon about" Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, astatine the residence located successful the 5200 artifact of Vivian Place.

Police accidental Phillips committed the maltreatment by "binding the victim…her son, astatine his wrists with enactment and pushing him down a formation of stairs." Phillips' actions are said to person caused "a hazard of superior carnal harm" to the 4-year-old.

She is besides accused of creating a "substantial risk" to her son's wellness by "violating a work of attraction and protection" erstwhile she "tied and bound the unfortunate with enactment astatine his wrists and pushed him down a formation of stairs."

Additional tribunal documents obtained by Fox affiliate WXIX provided much details astir what led to Phillips' arrest, peculiarly the allegations involving her 5-year-old daughter. According to the report, successful summation to binding the girl's hands with enactment and shoving her down the stairs similar her brother, authorities allege that Phillips besides physically abused the 5-year-old miss successful different ways.

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Phillips struck the kid "numerous times with a belt, causing superior carnal wounded which required (her daughter) to beryllium admitted overnight to a hospital," tribunal documents reportedly state.

In an interrogation with a societal idiosyncratic for the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services, Phillips allegedly "admitted" to causing the injuries to her daughter, stating "that was her 'normal discipline,'" constabulary reportedly wrote.

The victims reportedly underwent forensic interviews with a trained societal idiosyncratic astatine the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, wherever some confirmed "that the maltreatment had occurred."

Jerry Lambe contributed to this report