A Yucca Valley couple was arrested Tuesday morning, accused of child abuse. Sheriff’s deputies were notified Tuesday of an abuse case that had happened Friday, March 15. Investigators say Jeffrey Root, 33, struck his 11-year-old daughter across her face, giving her a bloody nose and two black eyes. Root and his wife, Alishia Root, 27, did not allow the girl to go to school Monday with her injuries, but when she went to school on Tuesday, mandated reporters called the Sheriff’s department about 10 a.m. Deputies went to the Bible College in the 55400 block of Santa Fe Drive in Yucca Valley about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday where the parents are believed to be students and arrested Jeffrey Root and Alishia Root on suspicion of felony child abuse, booked them into the Morongo Basin Jail, with their bail set at $100,000 each.
