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ELKINS - An Elkins woman is facing felony charges after being accused of abusing three juveniles.
Sara R. Daniels, 36, of Elkins, has been charged with three counts of child abuse resulting in injury, a felony, and one count of strangulation, also a felony.
She is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $30,000 cash-only bond, set by Randolph County Magistrate Tracy M. Harper.
According to the criminal complaint, prepared by Sgt. V.J. Pyles of the Elkins detachment of the West Virginia State Police, Pyles attended three separate Child Advocacy Center interviews in Elkins on May 18, for three juveniles who once resided at the same Elkins residence, according to the criminal complaint.
During the interviews, the children said they had been verbally and physically abused by Daniels, and that she had threatened to kill them and then herself, the complaint states. Two of the children said that Daniels was addicted to drugs.
One of the juveniles said Daniels would grab the child by the throat and would only let go "after a few minutes," according to the complaint. That juvenile also said at one point Daniels chased the child around the home with a knife, eventually cutting the child’s finger.
Two of the children spoke about an alleged incident in which Daniels was arguing with a man, and they "rammed each other in their vehicles," the complaint states. One of the children said that Daniels and the man were "in a ‘car fight’ and were playing ‘bumper cars,’" and that a child was in Daniels’ vehicle and the child’s leg was injured "when the cars struck one another."