Police said a Knox County couple didn’t bring a child to the hospital right away for severe burns.
It happened at a home on Shady Lane in the Dewitt community.
Sierra Shepherd and Tyrone Person are both charged with child abuse.
Shepherd said Person bathed her 2-year-old child in hot water causing the burns.
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“I hope he sits here and rots and gets what he deserves for hurting my child like that,” she said.
Shepherd said she left her child with Person for a few days and when she came back, he said he gave the little boy a bath in room temperature water but when he started to dry the child off, his skin started falling off.
“I said those are second and third degree burns on my baby and I was going to take him to the emergency room but he told me not to and he threatened to hurt me if I did,” she said.
Police said Shepherd didn’t go to the hospital until the next day.
Shepherd said she understands she’s in jail for lying to police at first, saying she was the one who gave her boy a bath before telling investigators she wasn’t at home when it happened.
She is trying to pay her $25,000 bond so she can be with her son as he recovers from a skin graft operation.
“If I get out and get my kids back, I’m going to put somebody else with him and I’m not going to talk to him anymore,” Shepherd said. “I hope he rots.”
Person declined a request from jail to share his side of the story.
