Today on Uncovered, he's beating on me
so many times. Cook County don't give a
because I'm not going nowhere until I
know that my daughter
I don't trust my child with you. August
13th, 2024. Glenn Ellen, Illinois. A
mother drives away from a fight. Anger
boiling, liquor on her breath with her
child in the back seat. She says she's
protecting him, but her actions say
otherwise.
Hey Bailey. So, a couple things going
on. Okay. One, there's some sort of
domestic incident we're trying to look
into over at Brier. Two, uh, your
registration is like expired and all
that stuff. Okay. Um, do you have your
driver's license with you? Okay. Can I
see that? Did you get your leg scratched
up? No. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay. Do you
need an ambulance? No, I don't need an
ambulance. What are you questioning for?
You should be questioning You should be
questioning the woman beater with a
bunch of felonies over there. Okay. Do
you want Do you want to tell me what
happened with that? Do you want to You
want me to tell you what happened with
it? I'm going to tell you what happened
with it. I'm going to show you.
Actually, I'm going to show you. I just
paid over I just paid over $1,500
to get both the front and the back
windshield of my car replaced. You see
it's brand new. Here is it before the
front, the back, all that. Okay, that
wooty woot him the same person who wants
to call the police when he's the one
who's been beating on me if you want to
see and there's police reports up the
that I'm actually I'm trying to sit here
and file a lawsuit but I just enlist
here is physical proof of this man
literally beating on me for over the
past a year and a half. I have multiple
multiple cases like this. You could
check at Glenn Ellen PD. You could check
Cook County. I don't know exactly Bridge
View. Whether you want to check Oaklan,
Evergreen Park, I don't know all the
different places. My baby is in the
back. Oh, do you want to see something
else? Do you want to see when my baby
had a black a nose because of him,
ma'am? So, I don't care if he wants to
call the cops because he's a cheater and
a woman beat her. Ma'am, I'm done.
Ma'am. Yes. Do you want to step out and
talk to us if she doesn't listen to all
this stuff? I mean, do whatever you want
to do. I'm trying to get the out of here
so I'm not anywhere near this man
anymore.
I'm not in the wrong. He is in the
wrong. So what happened? What what what
escalated? What escalated? What
escalated is that I've been with this
man two plus years with him beating on
me while he's sitting here being a
behind my back. I'm sitting here
thinking that, oh, when I'm going to get
shipped out in January of next year, I'm
going to come home to either this man
sleeping with another woman or he's just
gone altogether. I find the physical
proof. And when I confront him about it,
it's my fault. It's my fault. Now he
wants to, oh, I'm going to call the cops
because you want to sit there and put
your hands on me. You want to put your
hands on me, but when I retaliate, now
you want to call the cops. When how many
times has this man put his hands on me
when I can show you the dates that those
pictures were taken? I got pictures
going back to 2022.
Different scenarios. A+ scenarios. I had
a major surgery on my hand because this
man put my life at risk. He hit me with
a car. April of 2023 here in No, in
Bloomingdale, the parking lot of the
Amazon Fresh in Bloomingdale. And they
actually arrested him that same exact
night. You could pull the records up for
that, too. Um, so that that case has
been dealt with, right? Right. No, it
hasn't. It hasn't.
It hasn't. He's still sitting here doing
his domestic violence. He's on
probation. He's got domestic violence
classes that he has to take every
Tuesday morning. He He It's not done
away. It's not done away. I'm not the
first domestic violence case that he has
either. I'm the third I'm the third one.
But I didn't know that until I finally
called the cops. And then you learned
that way that he has been arrested. Mhm.
battery. Yeah. Have you ever been
arrested for domestic battery against
him? No. Okay. So, what happened
tonight?
You found whatever you found? I found
what I found. And when I sit there and I
try to talk to him, he always like just
either he shuts me out, he yells at me
and tells me to shut the up like it's
it's my fault, or he gets physical.
Okay. Were you guys drinking at all? No.
Have you had anything to drink today?
Nothing at all. No. Okay. So then you
confront him and then what happens? So I
confront him and he was driving. He's
sitting there yelling at me to shut the
up. Shut the up. We get over here to my
house and he hit me in the face and
that's when I started acting the way
that I acted. I hit his windshield out
because you know what? He did the same
[ __ ] to me. He did the same to me. And
then I'm sorry. I just I just I
literally just got a little cut on my
hand from the back of his windshield and
the was kind of like leaking onto my
hand. How did you break it? My my hand
with your vape thing? No, just my hand.
I mean, I had the vape in my hand, but
my hand I don't know if Yeah, that was
literally it. So, I don't know if y'all
want to arrest me.
What do you mean? Why did I break it? He
did this to me. He's beating on me so
many times. And guess what? Cook County
don't give a cuz I can't tell you how
many times I've sat there and called the
cops and Cook County shows up and guess
what they do? They don't arrest him.
They don't arrest him. Yeah. And you
know I don't So how how is this how is
it okay we just let woman beaters walk
around the streets? I mean I'm the third
woman that he's sitting here beating on
and nothing changes. So clearly it's the
system. I mean let's let's look. I'm
going to I'm going to look. I'm going to
look right now. I'm going to look right
now. The last time he put his hands on
me, my daughter was a victim. My
three-year-old sitting here in the back
of the car was a victim because of him.
Did he put his hands on you today? Yes,
he did. Look. So, this was what? June
26th of this year. This is my
three-year-old daughter who's sitting in
the back of the car right now. He did
that to her. He did that to her. Did you
report that? I did. He was the one that
actually called the cops. Is it okay if
she opens up to you check her? She's
okay. She was literally nowhere near it.
But this was the last time. The last
time. And you reported that, you said,
right? Where is it that it happened?
That happened in Cook County in
Evergreen Park. Okay. Why are you back
with him? I was only with him because as
you can see my sticker is expired. I am
trying to make the money so that I can
get the sticker fixed and I was with him
because his car I mean it doesn't have
an expired sticker. So he has the money
that is actually mine in his I don't
even know. He didn't tell me. All I know
is that when we work together doing our
Ubers he is supposed to send me 50% of
what we made in that day because we're
doing it together. Yes. I get out of the
car. I grab the food from the restaurant
and he drops it off to the customer. So,
it's 50/50 work. Yeah. I should The
money that he has in his bank account
right now is 50% 50% of it is mine.
Okay. Um, is it okay if I run you
through some tests to make sure you're
okay to drive? Yeah, you could do that.
Okay. Do you mind just putting your bait
on for me? You said you didn't have
anything to drink. Anything any
medications or anything? No, I'm not on
medic problems that I should be aware
about. Do you need medics for your
hands? No, I'm pretty sure it's just
surface abrasions. You sure? Okay. If at
any time you change your mind, just let
me know and I can have medics come here
to check it out. Okay? We want you.
[Music]
Inside the car, officers find cannabis
and alcohol. And in the back seat, a
child strapped in quietly, unaware he's
being driven straight into danger.
Did he hit your daughter today? He
didn't hit my daughter today. No. Okay.
Did he hit you today? When was this?
This was before we pulled up into the
parking lot of my house where I ended up
getting out and I hit his windshield
because at that moment I'm thinking,
well, you did me. I spent over $1,500.
It was after it was before. Before.
Before. Okay. Before you kicked the
screen? No. No. So that Yeah. No, it was
before I kicked the screen. Okay. So
before you guys pulled into the gate
parking lot, he struck you. Throughout
our our entire relationship, I have
never been physical with this man. I'm
not no dumb. I'm a female. I know my
place. I'm not supposed to be sitting
there trying to fight a man. Where the
feet? He hit me in my face. Where
exactly? Like over here on the side. I
don't know if you can see anything cuz
it kind of like grazed me and like kind
of like it slid.
Okay. How did he hit you? Close fist.
Close fist. Watch you like that. Okay.
You were sitting in the passenger seat.
He was sitting in the driver's seat. And
he's done that multiple times. Can you
demonstrate how he It was kind of just
like like shut the up like and it kind
of just like graced my face cuz I was
sitting back. I always sit with the seat
like far back and like lean back to be
comfortable. All right. So, no no
physical issues, nothing like that.
Right. Okay. Um, do you have any issue
with your eyes? No. Okay. So, I'm going
to have you look at the tip of my
finger. Follow the tip of my finger with
your eyes and your eyes only. Okay.
Don't move your head.
Okay. Uh, for this next part, uh, can
you just imagine a straight line in this
parking lot in front of you? I want you
to put your left foot on that straight
line. It's going to look something like
this. One, two, three. I'm taking three,
but you are going to take nine. 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Okay, look at the tip
of your toe and count out loud. 1,00 1
1,002 1,003 until I tell you to stop.
Okay. Okay, you can begin. 1 100,00 2
100 3 100 4 100 5 100 6 100 7 100 8 100
Wait, how many how many do I have to
count? I'll tell you to stop. Okay. 11
100 1,000 12,000 13 100,000 22 100 23
100 You can stop. Um did you So he
showed us a couple videos. Um in in one
of the videos I see that you also pulled
your phone out. Do you have any videos
of those? I had a video, but that was
after the fact that he had already hit
me. That's the thing that he always
does. That's the thing that he always
does. Cuz I can assure you, the time
that he hit my daughter, the time that
he hit my daughter, he's got all the
videos. He's got all the videos of me
like retaliating at the fact that he hit
my daughter, but he doesn't have the
videos of him hitting my daughter. You
know what I'm saying? No, not today. I'm
saying like the last time. It's
something that he always does. He's got
videos recording of like the first time
he ever put his hands on me, he hit me
in the face and I had nose running down
my chest with no shirt. He's got a video
recording of that, blood leaking down my
chest and everything. I've never done
nothing to him. He's the type of person
who will pull his phone out and start
recording what you retaliate to do after
the fact that he did what he did to you
so that he could try to use it against
you. Okay. Um, can you are you willing
to provide those with a breath sample?
That's fine. Did he tell you that I was
drinking or something? Oh, and there's
an open bottle in your That's his
bottle. That's his bottle. I took it cuz
I mean like you're not going to sit
there. I paid for it. I paid for I
bought him the bottle and you're not
going to sit there and take the bottle
that I paid for you. Like I mean he's
done it before. I bought him a box of He
tried to take the box of Go make your
[ __ ] with it. Like you know what I'm
saying? Yeah. But I'm I'm fine. Deep
breath and blow continuously until we
tell you a stop. There you go.
everything. Have great lungs, man. I've
actually I cut back the past two months
on the smoking just so I could pass my
test for the army. Okay. Yeah. So, you
are at a 0.09 plus.35.
Yeah. So, how much did you have to do? I
literally only had like three shots and
that was from bottle right there. Yeah.
When he had first bought the bottle,
that was like I believe it was around
like 7:00. 7:00. Where did you he bought
the bottle? Well, I bought the bottle,
but we stopped at the famous liquors up
here, and we've been doing like the
Ubers all day. It was like 6:30, 7:00
sometime around. They were just like a
little bit. Yeah. No, when I take shots
out of a bottle, because it's a bottle,
it's not a full like shot glass. I can't
take the full, you know, like amount as
a shot. So, right now, you're under
arrest. Turn around, put your So, what's
going to happen with my daughter?
Because her family is in Tennessee. Her
family, her family is in Tennessee. So
your dad's side of the family is
intense. No. I Before you guys arrest
me, I want to find somebody to come and
get my daughter. I don't want that. No.
No. No. We'll help you. You do not trust
it. I do not [ __ ] trust it. I do not
trust it. I do not trust. I've been in
the system. I want to call my mother.
Okay. We can do that for you. So you can
open up my phone right now. You can open
up my phone right now and you can call
my mother. We're going to work with you.
Okay. We want the best right there at
the top corner. Go to the bottom
contact. Go down to the seat. It's gonna
sound crazy, but it's my brother. He's
late, so he's gonna cut it off. Did you
guys breathize him, too? I want to know
if you guys breathalyzeed him, too,
because he shouldn't be driving home to
Chicago with the amount of liquor that
he drank. He drank more than half that
bottle. Okay. We'll talk about the other
half of the bottle. No, no, no, no, no.
I want to hear And we're bringing the he
want like I like I'm not playing. I'm
not playing when it comes to my baby.
Where is your mom right now? She's in
Plano. So, she's in Kendall County. It's
going to be a while. And I'm not going
nowhere until I physically see that my
daughter is picked up by somebody in my
family. I'll wait right here. You got to
sit down. Okay. Well, I'm keeping my
legs out the car. So, you can't shut the
door because I'm not going nowhere until
I know that my daughter.
I don't trust my child with you guys. I
don't. I'm going to tell you right now.
I don't trust my child with you guys.
You were driving while you were
intoxicated with your child. Okay. I'm
not intoxicated. You are under the
influence of alcohol. I don't care what
your laws are. Your laws are stupid. You
got more restrictions on weed when
alcohol people on the street more than
marijuana. Let's be [ __ ] for real.
Very true. I agree with you. It is very
true. It is very true. Is he answering?
No. So then go ahead and call mom.
What's her name? It's just mom. Is there
anything else that you need from your
car? Like your purse and stuff? Well, I
mean, we're trying to figure out your
daughter sitting on the back of a You're
not bringing that with Hello. Can I hit
it before y'all take me? No, I'm like
literally stressing. No, let me talk to
my mother. Let me talk to my mother.
Mom. Mom. So, you can What? We're going
to take her to the police station. They
can pick her up from there. Is she going
to stay by me? No. So, where is she
going to be in this time? So, she's
going to sit in a lobby by herself.
Bailey J. Burnham was arrested and
charged with domestic battery, driving
under the influence of alcohol,
endangering the welfare of a child,
criminal damage to property under $300,
possession of cannabis in a motor
vehicle, illegal transportation of
alcohol by a driver, no window tint
compliance, using unsafe tires, and
driving without insurance. She now faces
the consequences of every choice made
that