Posted on 10/24/2013 1:18:59 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
SAN ANTONIO – A civilian at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston was arrested Wednesday for nearly pulling off her 6-year-old son's genitals because she was angry with him, and then using superglue to try to repair them, court records said.
The FBI charged Jennifer Marie Vargas, 34, with assault within maritime and territorial jurisdiction resulting in serious bodily injury. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
A criminal complaint affidavit said the child's father, who is enlisted in the Army, returned to his home from work Sept. 27 and found his son crying in an upstairs bedroom.
The father saw bloody tissue in the boy's underwear and a severe injury to his scrotum, and took him to the San Antonio Military Medical Center, the affidavit said.
There, he was found to have a laceration to his scrotum that was 4 centimeters long and he had bruising to his penis area, the affidavit said.
“Due to the child's extreme physical pain, the medical staff had to administer medication,” the affidavit said. “The child was taken into surgery to repair the damage to his scrotum.”
The child is recovering from the surgery and remains in his father's custody.
Vargas, the affidavit said, admitted to agents that while angry with the boy she grabbed him by the scrotum and pulled him to her as hard as she could, “thereby ripping his 'sack' and causing a laceration.”
Vargas told agents she cleaned the wound with alcohol and then tried to fix it with superglue, the affidavit said.
“She applied superglue to the (boy's) scrotum until the bleeding stopped, stuffed his underwear with paper towels, and then told him to go to bed,” the affidavit said. “Vargas did not seek any type of medical treatment for the child.”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Mathy ordered Vargas detained without bond pending a bail hearing Monday, where prosecutors will argue that she continue to remain jailed.
Vargas was not charged until now because the matter still was under investigation.
Federal investigators said they are looking at previous states where the couple lived to see if there have been any prior interactions with child protection agencies in the past.
“We have not dealt with this family before,” Child Protective Services spokeswoman Mary Walker said Wednesday.
The lack of prior CPS involvement sits in contrast another notorious child abuse case that came to light earlier this month.
Police said 9-month-old Michael Rene Sanchez Jr. was found dead at his mother's Northeast Side home — stiff, cold and tightly wrapped in wet blankets. His mother had been under investigation by CPS for neglectful supervision since before the child was born.
Bexar County had 6,205 confirmed child-abuse cases in 2012 — the highest rate of any county in Texas, including Harris. Of those, 19 involved children who died.
What a #ing nightmare.
Monster!
Drugs involved, I suspect.
Faces 10 years in prison? Can they tie her tubes too?
I'm sure that made hime feel better! </sarc>
Evil wench.
All Hispanic names. What a, uh, surprise.
These poor children have had hell on their short time on earth, thanks to their evil mothers. They should be spayed right after conviction so that no other child will have to endure such suffering.
Tie her tubes?
Nahh. That superglue she used? Works both ways.
“the child’s father, who is enlisted in the Army....”
What a Mother———!
I remember a Hispanic woman 50 years ago, in Carlsbad NM, who tried to potty train her little boy. When he wet his pants she set him on a hot stove burner. He suffered many burns and was later taken from the woman who was a certified loon.
New monitor please!
I’m getting real sick of seeing this crap on FR. Like white people can’t do evil things? Grow up and knock it off.
If memory serves.......the superglue class of adheisives was the product of Eastman Kodak trying to come up with an optically clear cement for prism and lense manufacture.
Turned out to have other uses.
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Yesterday it was a mother who put an acetylene torch to her son’s privates. Must be the latest thing.
No kidding.
From the article:
Bexar County had 6,205 confirmed child-abuse cases in 2012 — the highest rate of any county in Texas, including Harris. Of those, 19 involved children who died.
Not from the article:
You’re an ass.
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