Mother accused of ripping 6-year-old son's scrotum then trying to repair it with superglue

A San Antonio mother was arrested on Wednesday for nearly pulling off her 6-year-old son's scrotum because she was angry with him, and then using superglue to try to repair it, court records say. The FBI charged Jennifer Marie Vargas, 34, with assault resulting in serious bodily injury. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
 


A criminal complaint affidavit said the child's father, who is enlisted in the Army, returned to his home from work on Sept. 27 and found his son crying in a bedroom. The father saw bloody tissue in the boy's underwear and a severe injury to his scrotum, and took him to the San Antonio Military Medical Center. There, he was found to have a laceration to his scrotum that was 4 centimetres long and he had bruising to his penis area.

“Due to the child's extreme physical pain, the medical staff had to administer medication,” the affidavit said. “The child was taken into surgery to repair the damage to his scrotum.” The child is recovering from the surgery and remains in his father's custody. Vargas admitted to agents that while angry with the boy she grabbed him by the scrotum and pulled him to her as hard as she could, “thereby ripping his 'sack' and causing a laceration.”



Vargas told agents she cleaned the wound with alcohol and then tried to fix it with superglue. “She applied superglue to the (boy's) scrotum until the bleeding stopped, stuffed his underwear with paper towels, and then told him to go to bed,” the affidavit said. “Vargas did not seek any type of medical treatment for the child.” U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Mathy ordered Vargas be detained without bond pending a bail hearing on Monday, where prosecutors will argue that she continue to remain jailed. Vargas was not charged until now because the matter still was under investigation.

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