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Mother
Charged in
Burning of
Toddler
By KEVIN
KEARNEY
HONESDALE
- A Clinton
Township
woman
charged in
the burning
of her
14-month-old
son waived
her right to
a
preliminary
hearing and
is scheduled
to be
arraigned
July 11.
Susan Marie
Pevec, 29,
of Flat Rock
Road in
Browndale,
faces
numerous
charges
including
endangering
the welfare
of a child,
criminal
conspiracy
to commit
simple
assault,
tampering
with or
fabricating
physical
evidence,
and filing
false police
reports. She
is free on
$75,000
bail.
Pevec was at
the Wayne
County
Courthouse
on Wednesday
morning,
where she
waived her
right to the
hearing.
The boy
suffered
second-degree
burns on his
torso. He
was burned
with an
object that
consisted of
two
concentric
circles,
with a
larger
circle being
four
centimeters
in diameter
and a
smaller
circle being
2 1/2
centimeters
in diameter,
according to
court
papers.
“Obviously
that's very
painful,”
said First
Assistant
District
Attorney
Patrick
Robinson,
who is
prosecuting
the case.
According to
police,
Pevec was
involved in
a conspiracy
to burn her
child,
tamper with
evidence and
then file
false police
reports to
cast
suspicion
upon the
child's
father, her
former
boyfriend.
Pevec “did
or did allow
another
(person) to
burn” the
child,
according to
court
papers.
It was
unclear if
anyone else
may be
charged.
The alleged
abuse, which
happened
between Nov.
1, 2006, and
May 22, was
the result
of an
ongoing
custody
dispute,
according to
police.
Police said
Pevec
carried out
a plan that
involved
everything
from
pointing
police to a
bag of
evidence
that
indicated
the baby's
father was
the abuser,
to writing
anonymous
letters and
sending
mail, all
designed to
put the
blame on her
ex-boyfriend.
Robinson
said he
couldn't
disclose who
has current
custody of
the child.
“I can say
that he's
not with
her, the
defendant,”
he added.
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