Camden County woman charged with child abuse after child suffers burn wound

LINN CREEK, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Linn Creek woman faces several charges and was arrested Wednesday after a 1-year-old child suffered second-degree burns, according to a Camden County Sheriff’s Deputy.

Amanda Terbrock, 27, is charged with abuse or neglect of a child, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of failure to secure a child in a car seat. She’s being held on a $100,000 bond, according to Casenet and a press release from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office.

Camden County Sheriff’s Office received a phone call from a father who was concerned after he heard from other family members that his child suffered severe burns and the mother did not seek medical care. The man asked deputies to respond check on the child.

Terbrock was living at her current partner’s father’s house with her partner. She allegedly told officers the 1-year-old was her current partner’s child and she has two other children who also live with her, according to a probable cause statement.

Terbrock refused to let deputies into the house. She said the child fell into a wood-burning stove and burned her hand roughly four or five days before and that she had called a pediatrician and claimed they said to not bring the girl in.

The deputy said she brought the child outside without a coat or shoes while it was 21 degrees. A sock was covering her left hand, according to the probable cause statement. The deputy saw the burn and indicated that it required immediate medical attention.

Terbrock allegedly told the deputy that the child had pulled skin off from the burn area herself. The deputy called for an ambulance to assess the burn. It was determined that the burn was severe and the child needed to be seen by a doctor, according to the probable cause statement. Terbrock said she would take the child to the hospital.

The deputy asked if Terbrock had car seats and she allegedly said she did. She brought two of the children and deputies said she did not have a car seat for one of them.

Terbrock allegedly was interviewed by an official from the Department of Children and Families and said she didn’t initially take the girl to the hospital because she “didn’t want a thousand dollar hospital bill,” according to the statement.

It was determined that Terbrock never spoke to a pediatrician and that a friend went on a medical website that made her believe she did not need to take the girl to the hospital, the statement said.

A doctor determined the child suffered second-degree burns and that she should have been seen immediately and that she needed to be seen at a burn unit in Columbia. It was also determined that the child never picked at the skin.

A nurse allegedly told a deputy that Terbrock had a different story about how the child received the burn. She allegedly told the nurse that the child woke up before anyone else and wasn’t sure how she was injured, and then told another story about the child running into a wood burning stove about a week and a half before.

The deputy went back to the house and talked to the boyfriend’s dad. He allegedly told the deputy he knew of the injury but believed that she had received medical treatment. He also said he did not have a wood-burning stove and did not know how the injury occurred.

Terbrock was arrested and the children were put DCFS’ custody.