A STEP-grandmother who burned her three-year-old step-grandaughter by holding her down in scalding water, has been jailed for 20 years. Angela Engeron, 38, left the girl with severe burns to over 40 per cent of her body and lied to authorities about the cruel assault in Paragould, Arkansas. The girls’ injuries “were not consistent with […]
A STEP-grandmother who burned her three-year-old step-grandaughter by holding her down in scalding water, has been jailed for 20 years.
Angela Engeron, 38, left the girl with severe burns to over 40 per cent of her body and lied to authorities about the cruel assault in Paragould, Arkansas.
The girls’ injuries “were not consistent with the story given”, according to an affidavit obtained by KAIT News.
In January last year, the Arkansas Child Abuse Hotline received a report that a 3-year-old girl suffered burns to more than 40 per cent of her body after she was held in scalding water.
Detective Rhonda Thomas of the Paragould Police Department said the girl was examined by a doctor who found her injuries were consistent with an ‘immersion burn and non-accidental trauma’.
The medical report, from Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, said the girl had partial thickness burns to her legs, feet, stomach, buttocks and back.
The report also showed the child had abrasions and bruising.
Doctors told investigators that “the history given is inconsistent with the injuries and the patterns of the burn are consistent with an immersion burn and non-accidental trauma.”
A media release issued by prosecutor Scott Ellington said the horrific assault will leave the girl “physically scarred for the rest of her life due to Engeron’s actions.”
The step-grandmother was jailed for first-degree domestic battery on Wednesday.
Jurors took just 40 minutes to convict Engeron, with a sentence of 20 years jail time – the maximum allowed under state law.
It is unclear why she chose to inflict the abuse on the child.
Last month, a couple left a 15-month-old baby girl with a broken arm and fingers and pulled out her toenails.
Madison Ricketts-Devereux, 22, subjected her own daughter to horrific abuse at the home she shared with her partner in Ledbury, Herefords.
Ricketts-Devereux and boyfriend Craig Sayers, 32, were found guilty of grevious bodily harm after a trial at Hereford Crown Court.
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