From the Salt Lake Tribune:
A Salt Lake County man who poked holes in the hands of his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter -- in what a defense attorney called an ill-advised attempt to provide medical care -- was sent to prison Monday for up to five years.
Derrick Lee Crispin, 30, and the girl's mother, Amy Ellene Roberts, 31, were trying to treat what they believed was a case of cellulitis, a skin disease that causes swelling.
"They were trying to get the pus out of her hands" by sucking it out with a syringe, defense attorney Earl Xaiz told 3rd District Judge Sheila McCleve.
While holding the girl's hands during the Jan. 6 operation, Rogers held the victim hard enough to break a half-dozen bones in each hand, Xaiz said.
The couple then put iodine on the girl's hands, which she rubbed into her eyes, causing temporary blindness.
When they took the girl to a hospital several days later, doctors feared the girl might permanently lose her eyesight.
"I should have known better than to play doctor," Crispin told the court Monday. "I'm sorry. I made some very bad decisions."
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