Two teenage Arkansas parents whose 2-week-old daughter was bitten by rats nearly 100 times, face jail time for allowing drastic injury to come to their baby.
Erica Shryock, 19, and Charles Elliott, 18, faced Judge Hamilton Singleton on Thursday, Feb. 1, in a court in Arkansas, and initially faced two felony charges, 20 years in prison and up to $21,000 in fines, according to Arkansas Online. But by pleading guilty to a lesser charge of permitting the abuse of a minor, the felony charge of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor was dropped.
