A 33-year-old Denver man is charged with first-degree homicide and youngster abuse leading to dying after his 2-month-old son died from scorching water burns, in keeping with an arrest affidavit.
Tony Lee Vigil was arrested on Jan. 23, simply over a month after his 2-month-old son, TJ, died at Youngsters’s Hospital in Aurora from burns protecting 40% of his physique.
TJ’s mom, 30-year-old Jaylyn Rose Vigil, is charged with tampering with proof.
In accordance with an arrest affidavit, Tony and Jaylyn Vigil introduced TJ to the hospital with “extreme burns to his physique” at 2 a.m. on Dec. 16. The couple informed medical employees and a social employee TJ had a “blowout” in his diaper at their condominium within the 800 block of Park Avenue West, however gave differing accounts of who gave him a shower and whether or not they used a thermometer to examine the temperature of the water.
Jaylyn Vigil stated each mother and father bathed the child and she or he was frightened a few chemical burn attributable to a brand new shampoo, in keeping with the affidavit. Tony Vigil stated he bathed the child in lukewarm water, however after 20 minutes TJ began to get crimson and his cheeks swelled up.
A social employee known as Denver police as a result of the couple gave differing accounts of what occurred.
Hospital employees later discovered the child additionally had a bilateral mind harm, a damaged wrist and damaged rib, in keeping with the affidavit.
Jaylyn Vigil later informed police when Tony Vigil woke her as much as inform her about TJ’s pores and skin peeling, she didn’t see the child tub within the tub and that it was in the lounge and dry.
TJ died on Dec. 20 after going into multi-organ failure because of the burns, in keeping with the arrest affidavit.
His dying was dominated a murder on Thursday by the Denver Workplace of the Medical Examiner, and his reason behind dying was problems from a thermal harm or scalding.
Tony Vigil is in custody on a $500,000 money bail and is ready to seem in court docket Sept. 19. Jaylyn Vigil is ready to seem in court docket Aug. 19.
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