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Wolf v. State

The mother's failure to seek medical treatment for her severely burned 3-year-old supported her child cruelty conviction.

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Lacey Wolf appeals from the judgment entered after a jury convicted her of cruelty to children. Because the record shows that the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict, we affirm.

The evidence at trial, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, was as follows. Wolf’s fiancé, Lamar Poole, was taking care of Wolf’s children one Saturday while Wolf was at work. Tammy and James Patterson, relatives of Poole, stopped by to see Poole and noticed Wolf’s three-year-old son, Cody, sitting outside. Cody was wearing underwear and a tank top and the Pattersons could see serious burns on his leg and groin area. The burns were oozing a yellow liquid and there were flies, bees and gnats buzzing around the open wounds. The Pattersons offered to take Cody to the hospital immediately, but Poole would not let them. He told them they couldn’t take Cody without his mother’s permission. Poole said he was scared of DFACS and didn’t want to go to the hospital. James Patterson testified that Cody was crying in pain and he called the restaurant where Wolf worked two times and left an emergency message for her to come home and take Cody to the hospital. Wolf never responded. Patterson said that he saw Cody around noon on Saturday and the sores on his leg were the same as they appeared in the pictures taken at the hospital the next day.

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