Bond Reduced for Student Accused of Burning Baby
Posted/updated on: September 29, 2011 at 10:28 am
NACOGDOCHES — A district judge has reduced bail to $10,000 for a Nacogdoches High School student accused of burning an infant in water. Kendrick Tarver has been in the Nacogdoches County Jail since September 1 after he was arrested on an injury to a child charge. A grand jury indicted the father after the 12-day-old infant was severely burned during a July 27 bath.
Tarver says he was giving the child a bath with a wash cloth. He eventually admitted spraying the baby directly out of the sprayer with scalding hot tap water. The mother blamed diaper rash. District Judge Campbell Cox lowered the bail amount from $50,000.
