A Twentynine Palms man has been arrested for beating up on a child. At 11:49 am on Thursday, Sheriff’s deputies received a report from a woman in a residence in the 6000 block of Bermuda Avenue that, according to her 11-year old son, her husband, Scott Barron, 29, had choked the child and had hit the boy’s head on the wall. The woman reported that Barron had a history of violence toward her, but not toward the children. At the time of the report, the woman was in a bedroom with her five children, and the husband was elsewhere in the house. Deputies arrived at 12:10 pm. Barron, was detained at 12:30. Scott Baron was arrested later in the afternoon, and was booked into West Valley Detention Center for investigation of felony cruelty to a child, with bail set at $100,000.
