Mom charged with starving disabled daughter to death
A Fayetteville woman is accused of starving to death one of her mentally handicapped and disabled daughters and nearly doing the same to a second, according to arrest warrants in the Cumberland County Magistrate’s Office.Bertha Brewington Melvin, 68, of the 1600 block of Flintshire Road, was charged Monday with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of abuse/neglect of a disabled/elder person. […]
