Texas mother accused of putting child in oven

Published March 20, 2016

Officials say a Texas woman has been charged after her 2-year-old daughter suffered burns and witnesses said she told them she'd put the child in the oven.

The Somervell County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that deputies were called late Thursday to a home because a child had burns. The sheriff's office says witnesses told deputies upon arrival that 35-year-old Tasha Shontell Hatcher said she'd put her child in the oven.

Hatcher was charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury and arraigned Saturday. Bond was set at $300,000. It wasn't immediately known whether Hatcher has a lawyer.

The child was taken to a Dallas hospital.

Somervell County is located southwest of Fort Worth.

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