Man Charged With Scalding Toddler In Bathtub

Terrell Da’Shun Childs
Bowie County Jail

Bond is $75,000 for a Northeast Texas man who allegedly burned a three-year-old boy in the bathtub so severely the boy suffered second-degree burns. Police say they charged Terrell Da’Shun Childs of Texarkana with injury to a child with the intent to cause serious bodily injury. Childs was babysitting his girlfriend’s four children when the incident allegedly occurred. Childs told her the youngster’s bottom was injured, accidentally, when soiled his diaper, and he bathed him.