A Loogootee man is spending time in jail after allegedly abusing a five-year-old foster child in his care.
Jasper Police responded to McAlister’s Deli on Saturday afternoon for reports of a man abusing a child inside the store.
The suspect and victim had already left by the time police arrived at the restaurant.
Police found the suspect, 61-year-old Clinton Burgess at his home in Loogootee after pinging his cell phone.
Police say surveillance video from inside McAlister’s Deli showed Burgess choking and slapping the child in the face before dragging the child out of the store by the arm.
After interviewing at the Jasper Police Department, Burgess was arrested and charged with two counts of domestic battery and one count of strangulation, which are all felonies.
He’s being held in the Dubois County Security Center.
The child and their sister were removed from Burgess’s custody by child services.
