A mother is behind bars after being accused of throwing corrosive acid on her teenage son and a 14-year-old girl following an argument over a phone at a North Carolina apartment complex.
Kendra McDougald is facing charges of throwing acid, assault with serious bodily injury, negligent child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. It happened on Oct. 20 at an apartment complex on Ponderosa Drive in Dunn, which is about 25 miles northeast of Fayetteville. According to an arrest warrant, the female victim suffered first- and second-degree burns on her chest.
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Raleigh NBC affiliate WRAL spoke with the boy’s uncle, Larry McDougald, who said his understanding is the argument was over a phone. About 40 people were around the apartment at the time, some of whom threw objects through windows, and were fighting, he said. When he went to go break it up, he found his nephew “screaming” in pain. The victim was suffering burns across the chest. He said the substance may have been hot water mixed with bleach. The warrant did not describe the liquid Kendra McDougald allegedly threw.
“This turned into something I have never seen before in my life,” Larry McDougald told the TV station. “We need to pass things up and let them go before it escalates any worse. This is my family. I don’t want nobody hurt, period.”
Both victims were sent to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Kendra McDougald worked as an officer at the Johnston Correctional Institution in Smithfield, the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction told Law&Crime in an email. She resigned last week following her arrest. She started working at the facility in May, the spokesman said.
Cops arrested her on Oct. 24 and took her to the Harnett County Jail where she has since posted a $125,000 bond. Her next court hearing is scheduled for Dec. 10.
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