Woman Accused of Dumping Soup on Boyfriend Arrested

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A 41-year-old woman wanted on an attempted murder charge after her boyfriend suffered serious burns following a Sunday morning argument is now in custody.

According to St. Petersburg Police, a tip was called into the department around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. The tipster said police would find Misty Childs at a home on Queensboro Avenue South.

That tip panned out, police wrote in a Tuesday email to media. Childs has since been brought into custody on an attempted first-degree murder charge.

The incident that led to the arrest occurred on Sunday just after midnight in a home on 13th Avenue South. Police say Childs and her boyfriend, Lavont Moss, 46, got into an argument. When the dispute ended, Moss, police said, went to bed.

Childs, however, wasn’t finished with the argument, police said.

“Childs, who had been preparing a boiling pot of soup, took the hot liquid and poured it onto Moss' face and upper torso as he was lying in bed,” an email from police said.

After allegedly dumping the soup, Childs left the home.

Childs was being interviewed at the St. Petersburg Police Department on Tuesday afternoon. She was expected to be booked into the Pinellas County Jail some time later in the day.

Moss remains in critical condition at a local hospital, police said Tuesday.

Photo courtesy of the St. Petersburg Police Department