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October 17th, 2008, 03:39 PM
http://www.wxii12.com/cnn-news/17735553/detail.html:
A 26-year-old Wilkes County man is in jail on child abuse charges after teachers said they overheard the man's son tell friends that his dad held his hand to a stove burner to teach him a lesson.
Deputies said teachers noticed that the boy's hand was burned and asked the boy's father, Jairo Barquero, 26, to take the boy to the hospital.
A local doctor examined the boy's hand, followed by a doctor at Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem who also examined the injury.
Deputies said that both doctors concluded that the injury appeared to have been caused by a stove's burner and that core of the burner could be seen in the burn pattern.
Deputies then questioned the boy who originally told them he had burned himself picking up a hot skillet, but later admitted that his father had held his hand on the burner.
One of the doctors also told deputies that the characteristics of the burn were consistent with someone holding the boy's hand to a burner, and that had the boy's story about picking up the hot skillet been true, the injuries wouldn't have been as severe as the ones the boy suffered.
Barquero was charged Tuesday with felony child abuse and was released from the Wilkes County Jail after posting a $10,000 bond.
A 26-year-old Wilkes County man is in jail on child abuse charges after teachers said they overheard the man's son tell friends that his dad held his hand to a stove burner to teach him a lesson.
Deputies said teachers noticed that the boy's hand was burned and asked the boy's father, Jairo Barquero, 26, to take the boy to the hospital.
A local doctor examined the boy's hand, followed by a doctor at Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem who also examined the injury.
Deputies said that both doctors concluded that the injury appeared to have been caused by a stove's burner and that core of the burner could be seen in the burn pattern.
Deputies then questioned the boy who originally told them he had burned himself picking up a hot skillet, but later admitted that his father had held his hand on the burner.
One of the doctors also told deputies that the characteristics of the burn were consistent with someone holding the boy's hand to a burner, and that had the boy's story about picking up the hot skillet been true, the injuries wouldn't have been as severe as the ones the boy suffered.
Barquero was charged Tuesday with felony child abuse and was released from the Wilkes County Jail after posting a $10,000 bond.