mother, grandmother charged after burned boy goes untreated for week
I don't usually post this, but I just found this so unbelievable on so many levels
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...a-news-broward
A mother and grandmother face homicide charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was dipped in scalding water as punishment on Christmas Day and suffered at home for a week until dying on New Year's Day, Broward Sheriff's investigators said Monday.
Valerie Kennedy, 30, had lost custody of toddler Jaquez Mason and his seven siblings because of abuse. She was not supposed to have contact with them.
Her mother, Annie Williams, who was raising five of the children, violated a court order when she allowed Kennedy to have Jaquez for a Christmas visit, investigators said.
Within hours, Kennedy had dunked her young son in a tub of scalding water as punishment.
Despite second- and third-degree burns over half the child's body, Jaquez's grandmother picked him up from the mother's Coral Springs apartment that evening and took him home to Deerfield Beach. She did little to ease the boy's suffering, investigators say. Williams did not call paramedics until New Year's Day, when the boy lost consciousness.
He died within an hour.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...a-news-broward
A mother and grandmother face homicide charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was dipped in scalding water as punishment on Christmas Day and suffered at home for a week until dying on New Year's Day, Broward Sheriff's investigators said Monday.
Valerie Kennedy, 30, had lost custody of toddler Jaquez Mason and his seven siblings because of abuse. She was not supposed to have contact with them.
Her mother, Annie Williams, who was raising five of the children, violated a court order when she allowed Kennedy to have Jaquez for a Christmas visit, investigators said.
Within hours, Kennedy had dunked her young son in a tub of scalding water as punishment.
Despite second- and third-degree burns over half the child's body, Jaquez's grandmother picked him up from the mother's Coral Springs apartment that evening and took him home to Deerfield Beach. She did little to ease the boy's suffering, investigators say. Williams did not call paramedics until New Year's Day, when the boy lost consciousness.
He died within an hour.
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