"19-year-old Jodi Rock from Tahlequah, Oklahoma,
has been charged with
felony injury to a minor child after after
admitting to police she
intentionally burned her 15-month-old son’s
genitals with a hair
straightening iron.
According to the arrest affidavit obtained by
Tulsa World,
Rock allegedly confessed to police that she burned
her son’s genitals
with a flat iron hair straightener. She told them
that she was
straightening her hair and that she touched her
hand to the iron then
she took and closed the iron’s clamps on the
toddler’s genitals. The
toddler had three burns across the genital area,
starting on the inside
of his right thigh across his testicles and on to
the left inner thigh.
This may not have been the first instance of
abuse. According to the
affidavit, several fractures were found on the
child’s his left
shoulder and 12-week-old fractures were found on
his right shoulder.
Additionally, the affidavit states that the child
also had forearm and
wrist fractures that were somewhere between a day-
old and 12-weeks-old
and the bones in the forearm and wrists had never
been properly set.
According to observations made by investigators,
the toddler to be
“glassy eyed” and “withdrawn” and his shoulder had
a deformity. The
affidavit states that the child appeared to be in
“agony.”
Rock is being held at the Cherokee County jail on
$200,000 bail." - Imperfectparent.com