California baby scalding
May 2, 2008California
Felony abuse charges for scalded child:
Reason to Blow Up the World…
A Hayward man didn’t call 911 after he intentionally dipped his girlfriend’s 16-month-old son in scalding water, inflicting critical burns to 70 percent of his body and causing his skin to peel away, according to police.
Instead, 20-year-old Christian Perez phoned his sister and her husband, police said Tuesday. They picked him and the child up in their car.
But they, too, failed to immediately summon authorities.
During the next two hours, police say, the trio drove the toddler several miles across Hayward to a Walgreen’s drugstore, bought ointment off the shelf and tried to apply it on the child.
They allegedly called relatives in Mexico to ask for advice, and tried to put the injured boy to bed at the sister’s home.
Finally, at 1 p.m. Thursday, while driving around again, Perez called 911 after the child began having seizures and his sister told him he was going to die, Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said.
Alameda County prosecutors charged Perez with felony counts of child abuse, child endangerment, mayhem and torture.
His sister, Patricia Perez, 21, and her husband, Jose Gamez, 22, face felony child endangerment charges.
A couple other things that make this story even worse. The first one is that they claim they didn’t take the child to the ER because they didn’t have insurance. Personally I think that’s bullshit. I think that either they didn’t want to get picked up by the cops for child abuse or someone isn’t in the country legally. Secondly their lawyer is trying the ‘someone in the building flushed the toilet’ defense.
Let me get out the Abacus of Doom for this one. One point for the scalding, one point for the ‘father’ not calling 911, two more points for his sister and her husband not calling 911, another point for calling Mexico to find out what to do (wtf?), another point for the ointment (again wtf?), another point for trying the ‘no insurance’ excuse, and one last point for the lawyer with the flushed toilet excuse. That’s seven.
Nod of Doom to LiLO.
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