BREAKING NEWS – Chicago, Illinois – A Chicago-area woman was ordered held on $500,000 bail this week after being accused of pouring boiling water on her boyfriend last month while he was asleep on a couch, according to a report.
The suspect, identified as Alexis Sykes, 22, of Roselle, Ill., fled to Mississippi after recording herself committing the act in the couple’s apartment on Jan. 2, then posting the video to Snapchat, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.
“The charges against Ms. Sykes are very disturbing,” DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said. “Dousing a sleeping man with boiling water causing serious, painful injury, as alleged in this case, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Sykes’ attorney took an opposing position. “I do not deny that my client poured boiling water on her boyfriend. But it was after a very heated argument, and the evidence will show that after their encounter, she was calm and he was the one that was steamed.”