The mother of a nine-year-old girl who was found dead in Brooklyn on Sunday has been charged with her murder, police and prosecutors say. 

Shemene Cato, 48, was arraigned on charges including second-degree murder, first-degree assault, first-degree manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with her daughter Shalom Guiffaro’s death, according to police and a complaint filed with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. 

Prosecutors say Cato began hitting Guiffaro, 9, and her other daughter, 13, with an electrical cord and a broom inside their Crown Heights home around 8 a.m. on Sunday. 

Cato continued to beat the two siblings for around two hours, until Guiffaro crawled under a bed in an attempt to escape her mother, according to the complaint. 

When Cato lifted the bed and tried to pull Guiffaro out, she ended up dropping the bed, causing one of its legs to fall off, prosecutors said. 

The bed frame then fell onto Guiffaro’s head, according to prosecutors. 

Cato’s attacks left Guiffaro with cuts and contusions to the lower half of her body, as well as other injuries to her face, head and body, the complaint said. 

Police said they discovered the girl unconscious and unresponsive in her bedroom around 1 p.m. on Sunday. Emergency service workers pronounced her dead at the scene, the NYPD said. 

The city’s Medical Examiner deemed the girl’s death a homicide caused by multiple blunt force trauma.

A judge ordered Cato held without bail after her arrest, and she is currently being held at the Rose M. Singer Center on Rikers Island, according to prosecutors and city Department of Correction records.

Cato's attorney declined to comment on the case.

In a statement provided to NY1, a spokesperson for the city’s Administration for Children’s Services said the agency was working with the NYPD to investigate the case, adding that it had “taken action to secure the safety of the other children in this home.” 

“Our top priority is protecting the safety and well-being of New York City’s children,” the spokesperson added.