According to an arrest document, Shannon Cox, 48, used a saw to chop off his leg while his child was there.
According to court documents released this week, an Arkansas man severed his right leg with a saw in front of his 5-year-old daughter last month.
According to a probable cause document, Shannon Cox, 48, is facing a felony charge of endangering the welfare of a juvenile.
According to the complaint, on Aug. 2, a corporal with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office discovered a nude Cox on the ground in front of a property “missing a piece of his right leg.”
When the officer questioned what caused the injury, Cox stated a “chop saw inflicted it.” “based on the affidavit
According to the affidavit, Cox was evacuated to a hospital.
His unidentified daughter informed authorities that “she was present when her father hacked his leg off, “as stated in the document
According to the affidavit, the youngster “still looked to be in some condition of shock” during the interview with law enforcement officers at a child advocacy centre.
It was unclear whether Cox had hired a counsel as of Friday afternoon. His family could not be reached for comment.
According to the affidavit, Cox’s wife, Sandy, met with a sheriff’s detective. She claimed her spouse had been “behaving strangely” before the event.
“Sandy said he was telling her that he was Jesus Christ and that she needed to get right with the lord,” the affidavit said. “Sandy said he then became violent toward her and said he was Satan. He told Sandy that he would twist her head off and continued to make verbal threats.”
Sandy Cox, 30, told an investigator that she left the house the night before but did not take her kid with her. According to the statement, she was frightened her husband would murder her, but she “wasn’t concerned about her kid.”
She could not be reached on Friday.
According to court documents, Sandy Cox was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
The judge gave Shannon Cox a no-contact order for the kid and his wife in the case.
