Police: Babysitting dispute between brother, sister leads to arrest

A dispute over babysitting on Friday afternoon led to a 25-year-old man beating his 28-year-old sister and taking $200 from her, police said.

Sgt. Brian Sigman said Saturday that officers responded at 1:30 p.m. Friday to a disturbance in the 3200 block of south Clifton, near 31st Street South.

When they arrived they learned that the woman’s brother had come to her house and demanded the money he had paid her for babysitting his three children, Sigman said.

He said an argument between the two escalated when the brother took his sister’s purse and fled the house. Sigman said the brother took $200 from the purse.

The sister chased after her brother.

“He … began to beat the sister multiple times in the head and face, and knocking her to the ground eventually,” Sigman said.

Sigman said police tracked down the man at his workplace and arrested him. He was charged with robbery and battery.

Police also retrieved the $200 and returned it to the woman, Sigman said.

He said he did not know if the woman received medical treatment for her injuries.

This story was originally published August 29, 2015 at 1:55 PM with the headline "Police: Babysitting dispute between brother, sister leads to arrest."