DALLAS – A North Texas woman has been convicted for repeatedly burning her 2-year-old great granddaughter with a curling iron.
Police said the girl was burned in July 2008 while she was living with 65-year-old Saundra Patterson in Haslet. Relatives in Oklahoma noticed the injuries and reported them.
Prosecutors showed the jury a curling iron that they said Patterson used to cause multiple first and second-degree burns from the top of the girl’s head down to her feet.
Patterson claimed the girl became tangled in the hot curling iron’s cord.
However, the jury decided she was guilty and sentenced her to 10 years probation for felony injury to a child.
The little girl is now 3 years old. She and her two siblings remain in foster care.
