(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A 23-year-old Roselle woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for pouring boiling water on her sleeping boyfriend in early 2020.
DuPage County prosecutors said Alexis Sykes poured boiling water on her boyfriend Jan. 2 as he slept on the couch.
Then Sykes allegedly recorded herself on video and posted it on Snapchat with the caption, “I kinda feel bad now because he got 2&3rd degree Burns from face to waist & they rushin him to burn center but oh well (he) still cried & beg me to drive him to hospital.”
The state’s attorney’s office said Sykes hid the car keys and the boyfriend finally had to drive himself to the hospital and underwent skin graft surgery. She fled to Mississippi, where she was later taken into custody.
Sykes, who pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery by caustic substance, will be required to serve at least 85% of her 10-year sentence.
“Considering her complete disregard for the amount of pain and suffering she caused her victim, one can only come to the conclusion that she has most certainly earned every year of her ten-year sentence,” DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release.
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