Florida foster mom charged with killing 4-year-old faced abuse allegation 4 months earlier

A Florida foster mother charged with beating and strangling 4-year-old Joy King-Castro to death in August had just four months earlier faced allegations of physically abusing a pair of foster siblings, according to police records.  

Child welfare workers in April removed the siblings from Lakeisha Mitchell’s Titusville foster home and reunified them with their mother ahead of schedule “due to the injuries seen" on one of them, records obtained by USA TODAY show.