A couple from Kentucky got arrested recently. The reason for their arrest was the severe burns found on a 3-year-old boy’s hands and forearms. The boy was taken to Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville.
Medical staff at the hospital informed the authorities that the burns on the child seemed like they were caused by being placed in hot liquid. Shockingly, the child revealed to the detectives that “Jacob did this to my hands.”
The 25-year-old Jacob Snead and the mother of the child, 24-year-old Breanna Lair, were charged with criminal abuse of a child aged 12 or younger. Snead faces an additional charge of assault on top of the abuse charge.
Lair and Snead are in a relationship, and Lair told investigators she left the boy alone with Snead for about an hour on Sunday, despite being ordered not to do so by Child Protective Services, which is investigating him for criminal abuse involving the same child.
The mother said she waited for three hours before seeking medical attention for the boy and then lied to medical staff about how he was injured, police said.
WDRB reported that Lair is a teaching assistant at a Jefferson County elementary school, but her current employment status wasn’t clear.
The child’s current condition was not revealed.
