"She escaped from a locked bedroom by jumping out a
second-story window, and Bowman admitted beating her with a "hard-heeled shoe," officials said."
and...
"Later Friday, authorities went to Bowman's modest,
single-story house in the secluded, heavily wooded subdivision but nobody was home. Bowman showed up later at the sheriff's office and said she had locked her daughter in the child's bedroom."
I hope this is just a case of bad reporting.