Woman employee held for burning child's cheek with hot spoon

Nagercoil, Dec 1: A woman employee of the anganwadi centre at Melakaatu vilai near here has been arrested for allegedly causing burn injury on the cheek of a two-and-a-half-year-old girl with a hot spoon, police on Tuesday, Dec 1 said.

Police said the girl told her father, an ex-armyman, that the employee, Banumathi, had burnt her cheek with a hot spoon.

When he questioned the employee, she asked him not to make it an issue.

However he treated his daughter at the military clinic and complained to police.

A case was arrested and the woman arrested under various IPC sections, including cruelty to children.

PTI