Featured Woman Set Her 8-Year-Old Son On Fire, Refused To Get Him Treatment

[Sugar Cookie]

Officials said that Kimberly Tyler, 31, got “upset” with her eight-year-old son after he made a mess while eating cereal at their apartment in May of 2020. As “an act of punishment,” she poured rubbing alcohol onto the 8-year-old boy’s hand and lit it on fire in the kitchen.

Officials said that the fire “spread out of control” and engulfed the boy in flames. He had first, second and third-degree burns across his face and upper body. Officials said that around 25% of his body in total was burned.

Prosecutors said that Kimberly Tyler and her wife wife Chareese Snorgrass-Tyler threw the boy into the shower.

“[Kimberly Tyler’s] sister told her ‘you shouldn’t do that’ and [Kimberly Tyler] responded that everyone is always worried about the victim and that ‘nobody gives an f about me,'” the SAO release said.

Officials said that instead of calling 911 or getting her son medical help, Kimberly Tyler called her parents to help. None of them got medical attention — instead, Kimberly Tyler and her father, Kimball Tyler, went to get him gauze and burn cream.

Officials said that the group agreed, based on Kimberly Tyler’s wishes, that the boy would stay with his grandparents, who would try to give him care on their own instead of taking him to a hospital.

“During that time, Kimball [Tyler] would frequently video call [Kimberly Tyler] and Chareese [Snorgrass-Tyler] and show the victim’s condition and urge that he needed medical attention. [Kimberly Tyler] would ignore these requests. In these video calls, the victim appeared heavily bandaged and in debilitating pain, grimacing as he struggled to stand up on his own,” the SAO’s statement said.

Despite further pleas that the victim needed medical attention, the Defendant said “in this situation nobody has to deal with it but her and her son and they all need to stay out of her business.” The Defendant admitted to her younger sister that she had poured alcohol on the victim and lit him on fire based on a trend she had seen going around on YouTube.

Portion of the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office release

The SAO said that Kimball Tyler brought the boy back home and said that he needed proper medical attention. Prosecutors said that for a couple of days, he stayed with Kimberly Tyler and Snorgrass-Tyler but did not get any medical care. Instead, the couple kept calling Kimball Tyler “and telling him he had to come back and get the victim because they did not have the time or capacity to care for him themselves.”

On May 30, Kimball Tyler picked the boy up and drove him to Children’s National Medical Center. Prosecutors said that Kimberly Tyler “became angry” when she learned that her son was at the hospital.


“When the victim arrived at Children’s he was screaming and crying in pain. His wounds were infected and there was puss dripping off of them. His wounds smelled so foul, that an infectious disease team was brought in to assess them. He had multiple contractures on his next and upper extremities where the scars were so thick and shrunken up that it limited his joint mobility,” the statement said.

Since he was admitted to the hospital, the boy has gone through around 20 surgeries and “will likely remain scarred for the rest of his life.” He contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) while at Children’s National Medical Center due to the length of his stay and had to undergo “extremely painful” dressing changes.

Kimberly Tyler was sentenced to 30 years in prison suspended all but 25 years, with five years of supervised probation after release.
Snorgrass-Tyler pleaded guilty to neglect of a minor and was sentenced to serve six months in prison with five years of supervised probation.

Kimball Tyler testified against Kimberly Tyler during court proceedings and pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment. He was sentenced to probation before judgment.

Germantown mother sentenced to 25 years in prison for setting her son on fire

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[agm8478]

Wait - “Kimberly Tyler was sentenced to 30 years in prison suspended all but 25 years, with five years of supervised probation after release.
Snorgrass-Tyler pleaded guilty to neglect of a minor and was sentenced to serve six months in prison with five years of supervised probation.”

This baby has a lifetime of suffering and scars and that worthless meatsack will only do FIVE YEARS???

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Wait - “Kimberly Tyler was sentenced to 30 years in prison suspended all but 25 years, with five years of supervised probation after release.
Snorgrass-Tyler pleaded guilty to neglect of a minor and was sentenced to serve six months in prison with five years of supervised probation.”

This baby has a lifetime of suffering and scars and that worthless meatsack will only do FIVE YEARS???

She will do twenty five years in prison and the other five on parole = 30 years all together.

 

[Angiebla]

I actually have very few words to say about how grossly disgusting this bitch is. And not getting him help? I hope she gets hers.

I hope this little boy goes to a good foster home. He didnt deserve any of this. I hope they give him strong painkillers, and he has emotional support to help him heal. Because this had to fuck with him mentally too.

 

[BBBLUE77]

His 'moms' and his grandparents failed him miserably. EFF them all right in the ear hole!!

 

[agm8478]

She will do twenty five years in prison and the other five on parole = 30 years all together.

Still not enough. Apologies for misunderstanding those original numbers, but it’s not enough for the damage she caused.

 

[GoneWest]

Still not enough. Apologies for misunderstanding those original numbers, but it’s not enough for the damage she caused.

Agreed. The way that’s worded is awkward. 30 years all suspended but 25-not the right use of the word all in my opinion.

 

[Busy Bee]

All of the adults should have been imprisoned for the remainder of their lives! They are fortunate that the child lived! This child will have to have treatment for the rest of his life! So many complications with burn injuries. The “mother” is brutal, how she could even think to do something like that? I hope the child finds someone who can love and care for him .

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Snorgrass-Tyler should have gotten the same exact sentence as Kimberly Tyler.

 

[jumbled_grawlix]

Unfortunately, it gets worse:

In addition to burning her child, investigators discovered that Tyler had been investigated by Child Welfare Services in 2019 for physical abuse and they learned that there were instances where Tyler would purposely humiliate the victim in front of the other children and at school.

The victim suffered from Hirschsprung’s disease, which caused him to have trouble controlling his bowel movements at times. Prosecutors say at times when the boy accidentally soiled himself, Tyler and her wife would discipline him by dressing him in his sister’s clothes and calling him girl’s names. When the boy had an accident before school, the women would not allow him to shower and would make him go to school in soiled clothes.

Investigators say they would also send the victim to school in diapers that were too tight on him and horrifyingly, Tyler would also discipline the victim by giving him unnecessary enemas. On one occasion, the victim tried to remove the enema himself and received a spanking.

As a punishment, Tyler would also cut out patches of his hair and then make fun of him in front of the other children.

The victim and his siblings also reported that they were always hungry and at the hospital, medical staff noted malnutrition as one of the victim’s conditions.

 

[agm8478]

Since they seem to hate children so much, neuter them both and make sure they’re on the National Registry for Child Abusers

 

[Taishobee]

I hate them both.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I am sure she was receiving disability checks for this young child since he was diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s disease.

I can not stress enough that their needs to be more oversight on parents or caregivers who are the payees for the disabled.

There is a level of frustration that comes with being a caregiver and to many children and other disabled people suffer in silence while being abused by their caregiver.

A visiting nurse should be assigned to check the home at least quarterly.

Our government finds money for every thing else - why not for the disabled?