A North Carolina woman is facing charges after she allegedly forced a 1-year-old boy into a scalding bathtub while babysitting him, causing him severe burns.
Amesha Johnson, 40, was arrested Thursday and charged with child abuse in connection to the March 1 incident.
Staff at a local children’s hospital alerted police to a “possible child abuse case” after “a toddler was brought in with severe burns on his hands and feet.”
“During the investigation, a detective with the High Point Police Department’s Special Victims Unit spoke to several people and learned the toddler, a one-year-old boy, was injured while taking a bath at a babysitter’s home in High Point.”
The boy’s mother said her son was not even crying when she got to Johnson’s house and seemed like being “out of it.”
“From the calves down, there’s no skin, just red,” she recalled.
The mother said the victim had his first skin graft surgery on March 7. The burns on the boy’s hands were fortunately only second-degree and did not require surgery.
“Right now, we just doing wound care at home and therapy twice a week – burn care twice a week.”
