ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Police have charged a woman with beating her 14-year-old daughter with a rolling pin when the girl arrived home after her curfew.

Donna Watson, 56, of Rochester, was charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Police say they got a call from a neighbor’s house just before 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 20 reporting the injured girl had run there for safety.

The girl’s curfew was 2 a.m. Police say the girl had returned home around 5:45 a.m. to find Watson waiting in her room with a rolling pin. They say she apparently had been hit several times in the head and body.

Police took custody of the girl.

Sgt. Anthony Triano said the girl appeared to have suffered several blows with the wooden rolling pin. “They were serious enough to warrant the first-degree assault charge,” he said.