A woman and her boyfriend in Volusia County, Fla., are taken into custody after a 1-year-old is found with bite marks on his face and his fingers severely burned and mutilated, according to Local 6 News.

Sheriff's deputies said they received a tip that Nicolasa Cruz and her live-in boyfriend, Jose Jimenez, were abusing or torturing her three children at their home in Deland.

"When Department of Children and Families checked it out, the investigator discovered it just wasn't abuse it was mutilation," Local 6's Erik von Ancken said.

The sheriff's report said the 1-year-old child had "bite marks to face and chest, second- and third-degree burns to the fingers and the skin had started peeling and turning black."

When the boy was first rushed to the hospital, doctors treated his fingers after Cruz claimed she he accidentally put them in a hot cup of water.

"Doctors say that is definitely impossible," said von Ancken. "They say what happened is his hand was immersed in the water, held for an extended period of time. (His hand) was burned so badly, that his fingers may have to be amputated."

The young children claim Jimenez bit the 1-year-old on the face and often hit the kids with a shoe, deputies said.

Cruz claims the injuries were accidental.

Deputies concluded in a report that, "The defendant knowingly and willfully abused the child and in doing so, caused great bodily harm and permanent disfigurement to the child."

The boy was rushed to a hospital with a leg injury last month, Local 6 News has learned.

"Doctors determined that he had a spiral fracture," von Ancken said. "They also said that could only be done with a twisting motion and yet he was returned to the house."

Both remain in the Volusia County Jail early Thursday.

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