Cops: Mom shocked child with stun gun for oatmeal-making mistake
Melissa Heale was arrested on aggravated child abuse charges after witnesses say she shocked a child with a stun gun. (OCJ, OCJ / June 14, 2013)
By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel
8:01 p.m. EDT, June 14, 2013
An Orange County woman was arrested Thursday on aggravated child abuse charges after witnesses say she shocked her child with a stun gun for making oatmeal incorrectly on Sunday.
Melissa Heale, who works for the Orlando Health and Rehab Center, denied that she purposely shocked the child, an arrest affidavit said.
The 34-year-old mother told investigators that "everyone was just playing around with the taser and when she touched (the child) with it, it was not activated," the report said.
The child, whose name, age and gender were redacted from the report released Friday, and witnesses who talked to deputies had a different, more violent account of the incident as well as stories of ongoing instances of abuse — despite a lack of previous arrests...
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