A 15-year-old girl has been detained after allegedly trying to kill her own mother — and her reasoning is even more bizarre.
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A mum lived through a "parents' worst nightmare" as her toddler had to be airlifted to hospital after pouring hot tea over himself. Michelle Downes, 38, called 999 straight away after then-two-year-old Jenson became covered in boiling water.
He was flown to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, where Jenson was given a skin graft. He had to have his entire upper body bandaged as a result - leaving him looking "like a mummy".
The horror unfolded in the brief moment that Jenson's dad, Jamie, had turned his back to put a used tea bag in the bin after making a brew at the family home in Cheshire, on May 17 last year. Little Jenson managed to reach up to the counter and pull the mug down - causing the contents to pour all over his body.
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"[Jamie] literally just turned his back, and then the next thing you heard was a smash of a cup, and then a scream," Michelle told PA Real Life. "I was upstairs, so I didn't actually see it happen, but I heard it.
"Initially, I thought I'd left a knife on the side because I just cooked their dinner... I didn't hear the smashing, I just heard the scream then I ran downstairs and by Jamie's voice knew something serious.
"I walked in and he was soaking wet but screaming, my eldest was screaming as well...it's a parents' worst nightmare and you never think something like this could happen to you but it can. His skin looked like a tomato when it's boiled all his skin was bright red and peeling off."
Jamie, a 45-year-old chimney sweep, quickly put Jenson in the sink so he could bathe in cool water to help ease the burn. Michelle rang 999 and the call handler then assisted Michelle, and asked her to put her
A 15-year-old girl has been detained after allegedly trying to kill her own mother — and her reasoning is even more bizarre.
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