|
Microwaved kid: Devil blamed
20/05/2007 22:05 - (SA)
Galveston - A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reports.
Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter on May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher.
"Satan saw my husband as a threat," Eva Mauldin told Houston television station KHOU-TV.
A grand jury indicted Joshua Mauldin last week on child injury charges after hearing evidence that he had placed the two-month-old in a motel microwave for 10 to 20 seconds.
The infant, Ana Marie, remains hospitalised. She suffered burns on the left side of her face and to her left hand, police said.
Police said Joshua Mauldin told them he'd put Ana Marie in the microwave because he was under stress. Eva Maudlin denied it.
"He would never do anything to hurt her. He loves her," she said.
|
