State takes daughter of man accused of putting her in microwave May 18, 2007 Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, May 18, 2007 GALVESTON, Texas - The state has taken custody of a 2-month-old who was burned after police say her father put her in a microwave oven, officials said. Children's Protective Services took custody of the child Tuesday, the day her father, 19-year-old Joshua Royce Mauldin of Warren, Ark., was arrested on a charge of felony injury to a child, CPS spokeswoman Gwen Carter said. The baby will be placed in foster care once she's released from the hospital. Carter said CPS has asked that no family member be allowed to visit the child at Galveston's Shriners Burns Hospital, where physicians from the University of Texas Medical Branch have performed two skin grafts. (This story has appeared widely in state, national and international news sources.) « Back | The Newsroom »