ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The family of a 7-month-old boy who was badly injured wants to know why a licensed daycare provider wasn't arrested, but the daycare provider insists it was an accident and claims she now faces threats on social media because of what happened.
Meanwhile, Eson Morris has a long road ahead, and will wear the scars and skin grafts for life. He's been medically sedated after he was burned last week by hot water. His skin has mostly peeled off his lower back, buttocks, thighs and feet.
"It's like they dipped him in boiling water," said Kadasia Smith, his aunt. Smith says Eson was watched at a home on Riverbank Street while Eson's mother, Essence, and Kadasia were in Buffalo for a few hours.
The woman who runs a licensed daycare center there hasn't been criminally charged, so we're not sharing her name. She did not want to go on camera, and tells a very different story about what happened.
She says she wasn't home when Eson's father dropped him off, and says that her 12-year-old daughter, who had babysat for them before, was watching Eson. The provider told us her daughter went to bathe the baby and didn't realize how hot the water was.
She rushed home when her daughter told her what happened, immediately called 911, and went to the hospital with the baby. She says it was an accident.
Smith says, that isn't enough. She doesn't believe it was an accident.
"I don't understand why she's still out. Why she's walking freely."
The Rochester Police Department continues to investigate what happened.