In a shocking incident, a mother in the US state of Texas put her 2-year-old daughter in an oven causing severe burns to the child.
Police responded to a report of a child who had been burned inside a home in Glen Rose, Texas, and arrested Tasha Shontell Hatcher after witnesses told deputies that she put her two-year-old child in an oven. Hatcher, 35, was charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury - a first-degree felony - and arraigned over the March 17 incident with a bond set at $300,000, according to the Glen Rose Reporter. Witnesses reported she had placed her child in the family's oven.
Somervell County Sheriff's Department confirmed that the child was taken by ambulance to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth and then transported via air ambulance to Parkland Burn Center in Dallas.
Officials said the child has since been taken from the family’s custody and is being treated for second and third degree burns.