A woman scalded a child in front of her home in Longueuil

A woman in her forties was arrested last week in Longueuil after dousing a 10-year-old child with boiling water as he passed her residence.

According to the Longueuil Agglomeration Police Service (SPAL), the child was scalded on October 2 by a woman in her forties who lives in a building with several apartments near the intersection of Boulevard Curé-Poirier Est and the Chambly road.

The young boy says he was walking home from school with his friends and they took a shortcut who passed in front of this woman’s residence. It is at this moment thata lady came out and poured water on merelates the child, who bears the marks of significant burns.

Around 4 p.m. I was home and saw my son running inside. He lamented, he shouted: “Dad, they poured water on me, they scalded me!” It was untenablesays his father, Tewa Pierre Senin.

Wounded in the head, chest, back and face, the young boy suffered serious burns.

I called the police, and since they were late in coming, we rushed to send the child to the hospital. And an hour later, the police arriveddeplores Mr. Monday.

The child, for his part, remains traumatized by this attack and has lived in fear ever since, according to his mother, Marie Ettian.

After finding the woman not far from the scene of the attack, the father asked her why she had attacked his son in this way.

She said the child used to knock on her door for three years, while we only arrived in the neighborhood since January. […] My son has never done thisrelate M. Senin.

What’s more, the boy had been attending the school located near this residence for only a month, adds the father, still stunned.

She said to me: “That will teach you how to knock on people.”

The woman was arrested and questioned by investigators.

She could face charges of assault causing harm and assault with a weapon. She was released the same day with a promise to appear and conditions to be respected, including not communicating with the child and his family.explained agent Mélanie Mercille, from SPAL.

The fact that this woman has been released is of great concern to the family.

I will never accept that my child could suffer this kind of trauma, indignant the boy’s mother, Marie Ettian. I fear for the other children too, because it is close to a school, and that scares me. There is fear in the house here.

Although this event is unusual to say the least, the Longueuil police remind the public to contact 911 when neighborhood conflicts arise rather than trying to take the law into their own hands.

With information from Karine Bastien