Satan put my baby in the microwave!
Allan Doeksen
Satan put my baby in the microwave!
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) -- A woman blames the devil, and not her
husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a
Texas television station reported.
Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua
Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil
disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher.
"Satan saw my husband as a threat," Eva Mauldin told Houston
television station KHOU-TV.
A grand jury indicted Joshua Mauldin last week on child injury charges
after hearing evidence that he placed the two-month-old in a motel
microwave for 10 to 20 seconds. (Watch cops react to burned baby
Video)
The infant, Ana Marie, remains hospitalized. She suffered burns on the
left side of her face and to her left hand, police said.
Police said Joshua Mauldin told them he put Ana Marie in the microwave
because he was under stress. Eva Maudlin denied it.
"He would never do anything to hurt her. He loves her," she said.
She is hoping to be reunited with her daughter, but Child Protective
Services is working to have the parental rights severed.