A KELTY woman has appeared in court for assaulting a nine-year-old girl.

Claire Munro, 35, of Muirton Terrace, has still to be sentenced for assaults on two other children.

At Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Munro admitted that on March 5, at her home address, she assaulted a nine-year-old child by slapping her on the body.

Depute fiscal Zahra Bhatti said Munro and the girl had been in the back garden when the incident occurred.

“The girl was asked to turn down the music but by mistake turned it up. The accused was angry about this and slapped her on the thigh,” she added.

Defence solicitor Peter Robertson said the music had been on “full blast” and the girl had also been throwing dog excrement about.

He said the incident may have been classed as “reasonable chastisement” if it had occurred “a wee while ago but not now”.

Sheriff Francis Gill deferred sentence on Munro for good behaviour until August 31.

Last October, Munro was in the dock for assaulting two other children on repeated occasions by striking them with her hand.

She admitted that on various occasions, between December 1, 2018, and January 1, 2019, she assaulted a girl then aged 12, threatened repeatedly to strike her with a belt and struck her repeatedly on the body with her hand.

She also admitted that on various occasions between December 1, 2018, and May 23, 2020, she assaulted another girl aged 11. She threatened repeatedly to strike her with a belt and struck her repeatedly on the body with her hand.

Sheriff Charles Macnair told Munro on that occasion: “Punishment of this sort for children is no longer acceptable.”

He deferred sentence on Munro for a year for her to be of good behaviour.