In Middleboro, Mass., Michelle Henry, 30, was charged with reckless endangerment and assault and battery on a child (her seven-year-old son) causing injury.
Bad enough, right? Here’s the doozy. Her 22-year-old boyfriend, David Privette, was charged with abusing her son by burning him with cigarettes, hitting him with a belt and urinating on his head while the child took a bath.
Privette was also charged with mayhem and indecent assault and battery since he disfigured the boy by repeatedly burning his genitals with cigarettes. Police said the boy had four burn marks in his genital area and one on his buttocks when police were contacted by the school nurse.
The boy told the school nurse that when he told his mother about the abuse, his mother told him not to tell. The boy’s school had filed three reports of abuse with the state Department of Social Services before Henry and Privette were arrested.
DSS first came into contact with Henry in 2002, after receiving a report that she was neglecting her son who was then two. Over the next several years, DSS received sporadic reports of neglect but nothing indicated physical abuse.
Great. Here’s a family who’s been “in the system” for years. Yet DSS does nothing until the THIRD report from the school, after the kid is badly mutilated by the scumbag boyfriend. It makes me mad to see kids get hurt when the people who should have helped (DSS) didn’t. This was PREVENTABLE, folks.
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