Police: Baby Burned in Microwave Also Put in Fridge

[Catherine Vincent]

Police: Baby Burned In Microwave Also Put In Fridge

POSTED: 3:30 pm CDT May 22, 2007

GALVESTON, Texas -- A man charged with injuring his daughter by putting her in a microwave oven also placed her in a refrigerator and in a hotel room safe, a police detective testified Tuesday. Joshua Mauldin, 19, of Warren, Ark., tossed his daughter on one hotel room bed, then the other, then struck her in the groin before putting her in the appliances and safe, Galveston Police Detective Holly Johnson during a bail reduction hearing.

State District Judge Susan Criss denied the request to reduce Mauldin's bail from $250,000 to $100,000.

The May 10 incident happened as Mauldin, his wife and daughter were moving to Galveston, where Mauldin planned to be a preacher. Left alone in the hotel room with his daughter, Mauldin "became agitated," Johnson said.

Investigators found human tissue in the microwave that matched the burns on the left side of the girl's face and her left hand. Police said the infant was in the oven 10 to 20 seconds.
The two-month-old girl, who had two skin grafts, was released from the Shriners Burn Hospital on Monday and into the care of foster parents who were trained on how to tend to her medical needs.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/13368067/detail.html

[ThomCat]

1. I hope they put him away for along time

and mandate a psychiatric evaluation. Damn! x(

And he planned to be a preacher? I wonder if he had his family values sermons ready.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. That kind of faux Christian probably gets his sermons off the 'net.

What a horrible, horrible thing to do to a baby. It makes me sick.

[ThomCat]

16. You're probably right.

If he's that insanely impatient with a child, he's probably an impatient person about most other things too. Why actually think and write when he can download.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. There is a website called pastors.com where a lot of fundies

get their stuff. It's based on the 'Purpose Driven Life' author theories. Some of it is okay because it talks a bit about social justice which I love, but the whole evangelizing stuff is a huge, huge turn off.

So judgmental they are. So self righteous. It really boggles.

[Fridays Child]

4. I hope they put him away for a long time, too...

...in a microwave.

[Warpy]

6. There's no crazy like god crazy

and this guy is definitely crazy. If the kid wouldn't stop screaming and he was losing it, it's called a DOOR. You walk through it, close it, and walk about the block to clear your head, then you go back and try again to figure out why the kid is screaming. Leaving a kid that is too young to get into anything alone for five minutes is infinitely preferable to shoving it into appliances or a safe.

And yes, you can imagine his family values centered on keeping kids with their mothers 24/7/365 and out of his hair.

That infant is a heroine. She's already saved us all from one more viciously crazy preacher only two months into her life.

[acmavm]

2. A 'preacher'. In Texas. Why am I not surprised?

[kimmerspixelated]

9. As a native Texan,

I take issue with that. I'll say it again! There are nutcases in EVERY STATE!!!! Period!

[MissB]

13. Especially in Florida!

;)

Stories like these tend to pop up in places like Texas and Florida more often, probably because those states are reasonably heavily populated.

[acmavm]

17. I agree, there are crazies all over. But you guys grow the biggest and

the craziest. Isn't that what your state is so proud of? How much bigger everything is in Texas?

Hell, Texas launched the political career of the current usurper of the White House and gave us Tom DeLay.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't pick on Texas. I live in Red Neck Central. But here it's more backwards and 'hicks in the sticks' farmer type thinking. You have some real real real mean critters down in your parts. Although we did manage to barf up Charlie Starkweather, the nation's first officially recognized serial killer.

[Justitia]

18. And your state spawned the machines that steal elections. They'll be around longer than Bush. -eom

[acmavm]

23. We have ES&S and that liar Hagel, yes we do. But Diebold, the bigger

criminal corporation (Where is Wally O'Dell by the way) belongs to another state.

[Justitia]

25. Well, the subject weirdo is from Ark., so take it up w/Bill Clinton, mmm'kay?

The non-stop Texas bashing gets really, really old.

[kimmerspixelated]

29. Gosh, I don't know where to begin.

I am actually not presently living there, but it is my aim to get back ASAP, not that it's not nice here, but anyway...sure Texans are proud, very proud, of a lot of things, but Bush is certainly not one of them! He is an embaressment as is Delay and so forth. "Some real, real mean critters"?????
Wake up!, mean critters are everywhere, unless you're talking about the fire ants, and scorpions, but I'll tell you what, Texas has some of my favorite people in the entire world living there, and 9 out of every 10 strangers are SO much more friendly than from anywhere else.... Maybe what you mean to say is that Texas is a very large place, so statisically speaking, there is more of a chance for the crazies!

[Justitia]

12. Excuse me, he's from ARKANSAS. He was looking to move to TX, that's why he was in a hotel. -eom

[durrrty libby]

14. Amen

[Beaverhausen]

5. You missed the best part of the story

from the link:

During the hearing, Johnson also said the girl's mother, Eva Marie Mauldin, did not appear to be protective of the infant. Eva Marie Mauldin has defended her husband, saying Satan was to blame for his actions.

The judge ordered a competency hearing for Joshua Mauldin, who was taking depression medication, according to his attorney, Charles Kaufmann.

[ThomCat]

8. I hope we see a story soon about this kid going into

a good foster home.
:cry:

[prole_for_peace]

32. she said satan was trying to stop him from becoming a preacher.

i would think satan would have better things to do than stopping some two bit teenager from becoming a preacher.

[BadAssTeddyBear]

7. His wife "Satan made him do it"

I don't know who's the sicker fuck him or his wife.

[GrantDem]

10. How about the mother?

The judge ordered a competency hearing for Joshua Mauldin, who was taking depression medication, according to his attorney, Charles Kaufmann.

How about a "competency hearing" for the mother? Sounds like they both need incarceration and psychological help.

[aikoaiko]

11. No justice, no peace.

Stories of outright cruelty to children drive me fuckin nuts.

[JuniperLea]

15. An old fashioned smiting is in order here...

We need the Old Testament God to step up to the plate with a few carefully aimed lightening bolts.

This neo-Christianity bullshit has gone too far... too many of these sickos out there!

[BlooInBloo]

19. Sheesh. Just stop.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. I say we ban microwaves.

This didn't used to happen before microwaves.

[Justitia]

28. My family, including the cat, would starve. -eom

[earth mom]

22. Lock that bastard up and throw away the key!

:grr:

:cry:

[KamaAina]

24. WWJM?

Who Would Jesus Microwave?

For that matter, what denomination would want this sick fuck as a preacher in the first place? Since he's only 19, perhaps his "plans to be a preacher" were nebulous at best. (His young age also means he can serve a looooooooooooooong stretch in the pen!)

[ComerPerro]

26. Wonder if he was following advice from James Dobson? Maybe that's the preffered treatment now

[sandrakae]

27. He is probably a Republican.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. mentally ill

[MissMarple]

31. Bingo! Totally insane, being a fundamentalist is almost beside the point.

Although, I sometimes wonder if there are more people with insanity/character disorder issues among the fundamentalist sects. Sometimes it seems like such a no brainer, but a credible study would be nice to have.:)