Child, 3, Bitten, Burned; Finding Rover, a Smart- Phone App, Is Pictured
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A3 + PLUS >> More than lip service for local Elks, Opinion/4A SCHOOLS GIRLS HOOPS Battle of Tigers visit the Brains Gainesville See Page 7A See Page 1B WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Child, 3, bitten, burned; Finding Rover, a smart- phone app, is pictured. 2 jailed Boy also suffers broken High-tech leg, bruises to genitals. By CARL MCKINNEY to the rescue [email protected] Burned, bitten and bruised — a 3-year-old showed up at a Lake City hos- when Rover pital with a broken leg in late October, but that was just the start. When doc- tors looked closer, they found much more, (or kitty) prompting an investiga- tion that led to the arrest of a Fort White pair on child abuse charges runs away Monday, according Photos by CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter Lester to a Columbia County Facial recognition software Humane Society chief Tom Barritt snaps a pic that can be uploaded to Sheriff’s Office report. can help identify your pet. the app so this cat — should she go missing once adopted — can be Around 10 p.m. Oct. more easily reunited with her owner. 23, a deputy responded By CARL MCKINNEY to Lake City Medical [email protected] Center to look into a See Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot’s face child abuse complaint. through a facial recognition database and A hospital staff mem- reuniting will be easier next time he goes Smith ber recounted horrible missing. The Lake City Humane Society, which CHILD continued on 2A administers animal control services in Columbia County, is partnering with mobile app Finding Rover to match lost pets with their owners using facial recogni- tion technology. Don’t worry, Pet owners register their cat or dog with the app, then the humane society can use the technology to figure out if new shelter it’s just duck arrivals are true strays or just lost pets. The humane society can also register ani- hunters mals coming into the shelter for owners who haven’t signed up to search for their pets, according to a media statement from Morning booms are from Finding Rover. sportsmen, not bad guys. “I can’t tell you the number of stray ani- By COREY ARWOOD ROVER continued on 3A Barritt uses his phone to show how a dog can be registered on the app. [email protected] When the early morning booms began late last month, so did the social Burglars pilfer wallets in seasonal theft spree media inquiries into their origin and calls to local law enforcement from By COREY ARWOOD distance of each other, giving night thefts Monday, according residence of another on SE concerned residents. [email protected] thieves a quick and easy score, to information from Columbia Country Club Avenue, while a Lake City police said around that sheriff’s officials said. County Sheriff’s Office. stop along the way at a vehi- time reports rolled into their dispatch Three wallets were stolen Neighborhoods off SE Baya It’s only a 10 minute walk cle parked at a home off SE about the unidentifiable early morn- from three vehicles parked at Drive and SE Country Club from the location of one theft three homes, all within walking Road were targeted in over- off SE Oak Hill Street to the WALLETS continued on 3A HUNTERS continued on 2A Vol. 144, No. 183 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Obituaries . 3A (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A DEAR PHARMACIST SUBSCRIBE TO Sports . 1B THE REPORTER: 61 38 Luxurious body creams that won’t cause cancer , 6A. Voice: 755-5445 Advice & Comics . 3B Fax: 752-9400 Mostly sunny, 2A Join our VIP your next oil change! Text Club $ OFF and get Text TMLC to 51660 10 SEE STORE FOR DETAILS. MESSAGE & DATA RATES MAY APPLY. ALIGNMENT BRAKES $ $ On brake services of 10 OFF 15 OFF $75 or more Valid with coupon only. Expires 11/30/18. 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Lester rode in the ambu- In an interview with DCF, a 3-year-old boy who was Smith reportedly lance with the boy, while Lester explained the bro- Thought for Today admitted into the emergen- explained the injuries by Smith followed behind in ken leg as an accident. cy room with a broken leg saying the 3-year-old was her car, according to the Lester claimed that he I looked up my family tree and found out I was earlier that night, according an active child and said report. was walking back into a the sap. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1921-2004, to the report. she’d always worried that Deputies contacted the room after doing laundry American comedian Accompanying the child the Florida Department of University of Florida Police when the child fell off the was his mother, Krisstina Children Department arm of the couch, causing Louise Smith, 24, and and Families When asked about the a table to topple onto the Winning Lottery Numbers Robert Odell Lester, 28, would even- about the bite case. 3-year-old, CCSO learned Pick 3: (Monday p.m.) 6-9-5 who live together in Fort tually be Later in from UFPD records of the Pick 4: (Monday p.m.) 0-2-0-7 White. called on marks, the moth- the night, a interview. Fantasy 5: (Monday) 1-3-6-15-18 Lester identified him- her. er said the child CCSO detec- When asked about the self to staff as “Kyle The tive relayed bite marks, Smith said the Henderson,” according to mother also bites her and the details child bites her and others, See an error? the report. claimed the others, so she to DCF and so she bit him to teach him The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news Records from the Florida forehead bit him to teach asked a what he was doing was items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, Department of Corrections abrasion UFPD offi- wrong, the CCSO report please call the editor. Corrections and clarications will show Lester had been out came from him what he was cer to sit in states. run in this space. Thanks for reading. of prison for about five the boy get- doing was wrong, while case Explaining the geni- weeks when the child ting into a workers tal bruising, Smith said arrived at the hospital. wrestling the CCSO report interviewed the 3-year-old was being Lester was sentenced in match with the child. potty trained and was Submissions states. The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption November 2016 on weap- his cous- The next constantly pulling back information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you ons and drug charges in St. in, and the morning, a his foreskin. would like to see your organization in the newspaper, send Johns County. bruises on his genitals child protection team did a Also on Oct. 24, the detec- the picture and information to Robert Bridges at rbridges@ After arriving at the hos- was a condition related to more in-depth examination tive learned that the child lakecityreporter.com. pital, Lester claimed a table him being uncircumcised, of the 3-year-old, finding had undergone surgery to fell onto the 3-year-old and Wynn told the Sheriff’s bruises all over, two ciga- correct his dislocated hip broke the boy’s leg, a phy- Office. rette burns near his belly and broken femur. Lake City Reporter sicians’ assistant, Jaclyn After Smith mentioned button and bite marks from Based on the circum- HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS..............754-0419 Wynn, reportedly told the taking the 3-year-old to the an adult human. 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