2023-11-07 23:16:40
A couple from Texas, in the United States, were arrested and accused of mistreating their one-year-old daughter, to whom the parents allegedly administered between 14 and 18 doses of methamphetamine, several American media reported.
Amanda Mann, 31, and her partner Dustin Michael Lawrence, 30, were arrested by police on Sunday following they abandoned their child at the hospital. Various charges have been filed once morest them, including for abuse endangering a child.
According to the police, the little girl suffered serious burns to her face and body following being hit by boiling liquid which overflowed from a pan on the stove on Friday evening.
The little girl would have seen 17% of her body burned. In some places, the wound was so raw that sections of skin began to tear off.
However, rather than going to the emergency room or consulting health professionals, the parents applied an ointment to their little girl’s skin and administered methamphetamine.
According to authorities, between 14 and 18 syringe marks were found on the baby’s body.
However, it was when they noticed that the little girl’s condition was getting worse and that she was starting to have difficulty breathing that the couple decided, following being convinced by a friend, to take the baby to the hospital. hospital.
The girl’s current state of health has not been specified by authorities.
In addition to the one-year-old daughter, the parents have five children: two-month-old twins, and three other children aged two, six and eight. The twins were also born in the recreational vehicle where the family lived, without medical support.
In addition to the one-year-old girl, a second child in the family had methamphetamine in his blood, tests carried out following the parents’ arrest revealed.
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