A woman and her boyfriend face multiple charges related to the abuse of the woman's two small children starting back in 2017.
According to Greenville Police Department officials, Robert Earl Kailiala Saladaga, 37, and Sabrina Irene Emerick, 25, were both charged with unlawful neglect of a child and two counts of cruelty to children.
The abuse allegations include several occasions where Saladaga would allegedly hold a pillow over one of the children's face causing the child to not be able to breathe. The child was reportedly 5 years old at the time.
Police said Saladaga is also accused of rubbing a hot pepper on the child as punishment for urinating on the couch while sleeping, as well as rubbing hot sauce all over the child's face, eyes and mouth causing him to vomit.
Saladaga is also accused of hitting the child all over his body, making the child take hot and cold shower and shooting the child in the foot with a BB gun as other forms of punishment.
According to a court affidavit, the 7-year-old victim told a DSS worker during their investigation into the possible abuse, that those punishments were for whenever he got in trouble in school.
The victim also told DSS that Saladaga would hit him on the arms, smack him on the legs and kick him in the legs as punishment.
The 5-year-old child told a DSS worker that Saladaga would put gloves on and then rub hot sauce all over his face, eyes and mouth, which would make him vomit. The child said he would also be forced to take hot or cold showers whenever he got into trouble.
Detectives learned that Emerick was reportedly aware of the alleged abuse and "allowed her children to be placed at unreasonable risk of harm affecting the children's life and safety at the hands of Saladaga."
Mom, boyfriend charged after Greenville police say 2 kids were tortured
GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – A woman and her boyfriend face multiple charges related to the abuse of the woman’s two small children starting back in 2017.
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