The Somervell County Sheriff says a mother is in custody after witnesses told deputies she put her two-year-old child in an oven.
According to a statement released by Sheriff Greg Doyle, deputies responded to a report of a child who had been burned inside a home in Glen Rose at 11:48 p.m. Thursday.
Somervell County is located about 74 miles southwest of Dallas.
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Upon arrival, witnesses told deputies that a woman, later identified as Tasha Hatcher, 35, had told them she put her baby in the oven, Doyle said.
Hatcher was arrested and charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury, a first degree felony.
The child was taken to a hospital in Fort Worth before being careflighted to Parkland Burn Center in Dallas.
Hatcher was arraigned Saturday with a bond set at $300,000.
The case remains under investigation by the Somervell County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Rangers and Child Protective Services.
