Trending
WARREN -- A Trumbull County jury deliberated about 10 minutes Tuesday before finding Martisha Haynes, 41, of Warren, guilty of two counts of felony child endangering for a Feb. 3 incident in which a 7-year-old child suffered severe burns from bumping a pot of boiling water on the stove.
During the trial before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Rice, Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Gabe Wildman presented evidence that the girl suffered second and third-degree burns to her buttocks, a leg and foot. Wildman called school officials, a Trumbull County Children Services investigator, a doctor and police officers to testify.
They said the girl's injuries were compounded by the pain she suffered while not being treated in an unkempt household for several weeks before the burns were discovered at school.
Wildman alleged that Haynes neglected her duty to see that her daughter received proper medical care and created a dangerous condition by having a pot of boiling water on a stove to provide heat for the home on Clearwater Street Northwest where the incident took place.
Testimony indicated that the girl only received minimal care after she suffered the burns and that Haynes lied to school officials by writing a note stating that her daughter was injured by falling on ice.
Haynes could get more than 10 years in prison when she is sentenced at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 1.
After the jury announced its verdict, Haynes' bond was revoked, and she was taken to the Trumbull County jail, where she remained Wednesday morning.