Revere Officer, Mother Allegedly Let Fellow Officer Abuse Her Child: DA

Prosecutors brought additional charges Friday, following disturbing allegations last week that an off-duty Revere police officer handcuffed and beat the five-year-old child of a woman he was seeing. The child's mother, herself an officer with the Revere Police Department, now faces charges of her own, alleging she not only allowed that incident to happen, but had previously assaulted both her children.

Angela Halcovich, 31, stands accused of letting her boyfriend and fellow officer, Marcos Garcia, assault her children, and of beating them both herself on a date several months earlier, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Halcovich was arraigned Friday in Chelsea District Court, charged with two counts of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery on a child under the theory of wantonly or recklessly allowing another person to commit assault and battery on a child.

She was held on a $2,500 cash bail Friday, and ordered not to see her children unless under supervision, the DA's office said.

Garcia, 32, of Saugus, was arraigned last week in Chelsea District Court on charges of assault and battery on a child causing injury and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors alleged last week that the incident began when one of the children would not eat dinner "quickly enough." Garcia sent the child to a bedroom, placed him in handcuffs, and beat him with his hands and a belt, prosecutors alleged.

Prosecutors claim he told the five-year-old to take a shower and rub ointment on the wounds. He then told the victim and another child there to tell anyone who asked that the injuries were the result of falling down a flight of stairs, prosecutors alleged. However, the child allegedly later confessed to a school nurse.

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