Grits burns lead to battery booking of Boutte woman

Matt Scallan

The Times-Picayune

December 09, 2009, 6:58PM

A Boutte woman who allegedly poured a pot of boiling grits onto her sleeping boyfriend last month was booked with second-degree battery Wednesday.

Carolyn Brown

Carolyn Brown, 44, of Ponderosa Drive, caused second-degree burns on the man's face and arms, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

The man told sheriff's deputies that he came home from work on Nov. 7, got into an argument with Brown, told her that he was breaking up with her, then went to bed.

The man was treated for second-degree burns on his face and arm. Brown fled the home after the incident and later was arrested in the 1000 block of Paul Maillard Road.

Brown was being held in the Nelson Coleman Correctional Facility in lieu of $40,000 bail.