A $2 million bond was set Monday for a 36-year old Chicago man charged with scalding a 2-year-old boy so severely that the child could have to learn to walk again.
Jarvon Crossley, an overnight supermarket stock clerk, was home alone Aug. 17 caring for the 2-year-old boy in the South Chicago neighborhood when the child opened the refrigerator, grabbed butter and spread it on the floor and on his arms and legs, according to a police report.
Crossley told police he awoke from a nap and was infuriated “because he had to clean the butter off the floor and the victim,” the report said. Crossley then put the boy in bathwater so hot that “the victim’s skin came off” when Crossley took him out of the tub, the police report said.
The boy suffered severe burns over 25 to 30 percent of his body, including his legs, feet and lower back. He already has had two skin-graft surgeries and is being treated at Comer Children’s Hospital, Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Foss told the court.
Crossley was arrested Sunday and charged with aggravated battery of a child under 13 years old. He appeared in bond court Monday.
“Your bail is $2 million for harming this child,” Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. told Crossley during the hearing.
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Crossley’s next court date is scheduled for Sept. 11.