A local woman is out on bond this week after being charged with felony injury to a child.
Donley County Sheriff Butch Blackburn said officers were dispatched to a residence on McClelland Street on November 9 to investigate a possible sexual assault of a child.
“Our investigation determined that a three-year-old white female had been burned on her private area,” Blackburn said.
The contact burns were likely caused due to hot water, the sheriff said. The child was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo and then transferred to the Lubbock burn unit for treatment.
A warrant was obtained for the girl’s mother, 29-year-old Kristina Johnson, and she was arrested by the Childress County Sheriff’s Office on November 13 and placed in the Childress jail.
Blackburn said he and Chief Deputy Randy Bond traveled to Childress and obtained a confession from the woman. She was arraigned by a Childress County Justice of the Peace on November 15 and bond was set at $100,000.
Bond was later reduced to $10,000 through an agreement with the suspect’s attorney and the district attorney’s office, the sheriff said.
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