Florida babysitter burned child with pot as ‘form of discipline’: sheriff

Jennifer Nicole Posey, 29, admitted to burning the 10-year-old to "train the kid a lesson" on June 26 whereas caring for the teenager and two different youngsters, based on the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Workplace.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s

A Florida babysitter burned a younger little one with a sizzling pot as a “type of self-discipline,” authorities stated Wednesday.

Jennifer Nicole Posey, 29, admitted to burning a 10-year-old to “train the kid a lesson” on June 26 whereas caring for the teenager and two different youngsters, based on the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Posey, of Solar Metropolis Heart, made the sufferer immediate ramen soup on a stovetop earlier than the 10-year-old pretended to spill the recent broth on one of many different youngsters, deputies stated.

“In an try to show the kid a lesson, Posey took a sizzling pot, which had been used to warmth the ramen roughly two minutes prior, and pressed it in opposition to the sufferer’s arm,” sheriff’s officers stated in a press release.

The kid was left with a burn roughly 4 inches lengthy. Posey, who was arrested Tuesday for aggravated little one abuse, has confessed to detectives to doling out the punishment, authorities stated. The sufferer was not hospitalized and was handled with at-home treatments.

“Youngsters shall be youngsters, however an grownup ought to know higher than to make use of such nice bodily punishment to attempt to right their unhealthy habits,” Sheriff Chad Chronister stated. “This suspect’s actions had been intentional, unacceptable and she's going to now face the implications for inflicting pointless ache on a helpless little one.”

Posey remained held on $30,000 bond early Wednesday in Hillsborough County, jail data present. It’s unclear if she’s employed an lawyer who may communicate on her behalf.

Authorities stated she had been a caregiver for round 5 years to the kid, whose title was not launched below Florida’s Marsy’s Regulation.

Along with working as a caregiver, Posey is employed as an insurance coverage rep, jail data present.