Oklahoma couple arrested after child shows signs of abuse at school, sheriff says

TISHOMINGO, Okla. (KXII) – A Johnston county couple has been arrested after a instructor observed a Mannsville elementary scholar was exhibiting indicators of kid abuse.

Court docket paperwork state the 6-year-old little one had bruises on his backside, legs, chest, tummy, arms, palms and a black eye.

Johnston County Sheriff Gary Dodd mentioned after his workplace started investigating, they requested Sara’s Mission to conduct a forensic interview.

“After the forensic interview was accomplished with the kids, one among them was really medically examined,” Dodd mentioned. “The physician there decided that the accidents he had sustained had been non-accidental.”

Dodd mentioned that primarily based on the proof discovered through the examination and forensic interview, they arrested the kid’s mom, 26-year-old Future Wright, for failing to guard her son. Wright’s boyfriend, 25-year-old Bobby Wayne Stuckel was arrested for little one abuse.

“The mom remains to be beneath investigation,” Dodd mentioned. “We don’t know at this level if she was really a bodily abuser, however she did partake within the abuse by letting it occur.”

Dodd mentioned they’re grateful {that a} instructor observed and known as it in.

Dodd mentioned the kids within the residence are actually protected.

Superintendent Brandi Worth mentioned each employees member at Mannsville college is educated to acknowledge indicators of abuse.

“Academics all the time have open doorways in addition to your superintendents,” Worth mentioned. “Anyone on the college will take heed to you any time you could have a necessity or concern or really feel like there’s one thing going improper.”

Worth additionally launched a press release about what occurred:

Our precedence at Mannsville Public Faculties is all the time the security and well-being of our college students. And Oklahoma legislation states that each individual, personal citizen or skilled who has cause to consider {that a} little one beneath the age of 18 is being abused or uncared for, should report it to the Oklahoma Dept. of Human Companies. As educators, it’s all the time a somber event when now we have to make that report. However each college instructor and individual on employees at Mannsville faculties has acquired coaching on what the indicators of potential abuse are and the right way to make that report. Our primary objective is to ensure our college students have the brightest future potential, and sadly typically meaning intervening on their behalf to make a report back to DHS.

“Attain out to a deputy, a police officer, a instructor, a counselor, one other grownup as a result of this could’t be tolerated,” Dodd mentioned. “I’ve mentioned it as soon as, I’ve mentioned it a thousand occasions, we’re not gonna let this occur right here.”

Steckel and Wright are being held on the Johnston County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

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