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.