CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2014 A 3-year-old boy is in the hospital after suffering third degree burns at his home in Cherokee County. Authorities with Child Protective Services tell KETK, they received a call on October 7th that the boy had been injured, and was in the hospital with burns on his chest, arms and torso. CPS arrived at the hospital and immediately took the boy and his 9 month old sibling into custody. The 9-month-old has been placed in a foster home. The 3-year-old boy is currently in a Dallas hospital\t undergoing treatment for his injuries. When he is released, he will join his sibling in foster care. CPS and the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office are investigating the case for neglectful supervision. They are looking into what happened, how the burns occurred, and who was responsible for the children\u2019s care at the time of the injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHEROKEE COUNTY \u2014 A 3-year-old boy is in the hospital after suffering third degree burns at his home in Cherokee County. Authorities with Child Protective Services tell KETK, they received a call on October 7th that the boy had been injured, and was in the hospital with burns on his chest, arms and torso. CPS … Continue reading Toddler Flown to Dallas for 3rd Degree Burns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 00:24:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217773,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217536\/revisions\/217773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}