Weeks v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

By way of a special presentment, defendant was charged with cruelty to children in that he did “unlawfully, and maliciously cause [‘J. P.’], a child under the age of 18, excessive physical pain by burning said child repeatedly with a cigarette.” The evidence at his jury trial showed the following: Kim Wilson, an investigator with the Polk County Department of Family & Children Services interviewed the six-year-old victim, J. P., at Westside School in late August 1994. She noticed several sores on J. P.’s face. When she asked J. P. about these sores, he said “…